House roll call 61 · 43rd Congress · Feb 17, 1874
To recommit a resolution regarding the arkansas contested election, to the comitte on elections, with instructions to report.
On Feb 17, 1874, the House voted 116–117. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 41–118, Democrats 73–0, Others 3–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 members voted against their own party.
During the 43rd Congress (1873–1874), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 116
- No
- 117
- Did not vote
- 69
- Date
- Feb 17, 1874
By party
- Others3 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans41 yes · 118 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Democrats73 yes · 0 no · 21 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Alexander White R-AL voted yes
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT voted yes
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT voted yes
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA voted yes
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA voted yes
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson R-IA voted yes
- John Adam Kasson R-IA voted yes
- John Blake Rice R-IL voted yes
- James Buffinton R-MA voted yes
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted yes
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted yes
- Alvah Crocker R-MA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted yes
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI voted yes
- Henry Waldron R-MI voted yes
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO voted yes
- John Roy Lynch R-MS voted yes
- William Bradbury Small R-NH voted yes
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY voted yes
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY voted yes
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY voted yes
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY voted yes
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY voted yes
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted yes
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted yes
- John Quincy Smith R-OH voted yes
- James Monroe R-OH voted yes
- Washington Townsend R-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted yes
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC voted yes
- James Beverley Sener R-VA voted yes
- John Ambler Smith R-VA voted yes
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT voted yes
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted yes
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- George Willard R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Did not vote
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Brown Read D-KY
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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