House roll call 153 · 44th Congress · Jul 24, 1876
To suspend the rules and pass H.J. RES. 155, a bill directing the suspension of further proceedings under the act of aug. 5, 1861, regarding lands sold for dire
On Jul 24, 1876, the House voted 141–44 (HJR 155). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 110–6, Republicans 27–36, Independents 2–2, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 33 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
- 141
- No
- 44
- Did not vote
- 123
- Date
- Jul 24, 1876
By party
- Republicans27 yes · 36 no · 48 didn’t vote
- Democrats110 yes · 6 no · 72 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents2 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Horace Francis Page R-CA voted yes
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA voted yes
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA voted no
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted yes
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted yes
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS voted no
- John Daugherty White R-KY voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- William Pierce Frye R-ME voted yes
- George Willard R-MI voted yes
- William Brewster Williams R-MI voted yes
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI voted yes
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted yes
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted yes
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted no
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ voted yes
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- William Woodburn R-NV voted yes
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY voted yes
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY voted yes
- John Madison Davy R-NY voted yes
- John Simpson Savage D-OH voted no
- Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
- James Monroe R-OH voted yes
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted yes
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted yes
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN voted yes
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI voted no
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons 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
- James Phelps D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin 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
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-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
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- 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
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-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
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Smith King R-MN
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
Other votes
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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend the rules and pass H.J. RES. 155…: House Vote, Jul 24, 1876,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/44-H-153/to-suspend-the-rules-and-pass-h-j-res (accessed 2026-10-17).