House roll call 143 · 44th Congress · Jul 17, 1876
To suspend the rules and pass a h. Res., providing that the speaker appoint a committee of 3 members of the house after adjournment of Congress to proceed to TH
On Jul 17, 1876, the House voted 185–14. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 120–8, Republicans 62–4, Independents 2–1, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 12 members voted against their own party.
During the 44th Congress (1875–1876), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 185
- No
- 14
- Did not vote
- 109
- Date
- Jul 17, 1876
By party
- Republicans62 yes · 4 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Democrats120 yes · 8 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents2 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL voted no
- James Phelps D-CT voted no
- Philip Cook D-GA voted no
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN voted no
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted no
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY voted no
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted no
- George Willard R-MI voted no
- Allen Potter D-MI voted no
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI voted no
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO voted no
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- James Phelps D-CT
- Philip Cook D-GA
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- William James Purman R-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- William Smith King R-MN
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
Other votes
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