House roll call 206 · 44th Congress · Dec 4, 1876
To amend a h. Res., administering the oath of office to c.w. Butts as representative of the 2nd district of south carolina, by providing that the credentials of
On Dec 4, 1876, the House voted 141–89. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 139–10, Republicans 1–73, Others 1–3, Independents 0–3. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 11 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
- 89
- Did not vote
- 78
- Date
- Dec 4, 1876
By party
- Republicans1 yes · 73 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Democrats139 yes · 10 no · 39 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA voted no
- Edwin Flye R-ME voted yes
- Allen Potter D-MI voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted no
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY voted no
- Scott Lord D-NY voted no
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA voted no
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-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 Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-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
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- 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
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- John Robbins D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle 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
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Allen Potter D-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
- William Smith King R-MN
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- George Willard R-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
Other votes
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