House roll call 211 · 44th Congress · Dec 6, 1876
To table the message of the President regarding letters addressed to him by j. Sherhan and other citizens regarding the canvas of the vote for electors in lousi
On Dec 6, 1876, the House voted 153–90. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 153–1, Republicans 0–83, Others 1–3, Independents 0–3. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 153
- No
- 90
- Did not vote
- 64
- Date
- Dec 6, 1876
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 83 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Democrats153 yes · 1 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Allen Potter D-MI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt 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
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton 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
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson 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
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- 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
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner 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
- 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
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John Simpson Savage 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
- John Robbins D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly 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
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. 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
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- 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
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- 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
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort 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
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- George Willard 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
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-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
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield 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
- John Black Packer R-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
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Henry Howard Starkweather 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
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Frank Morey R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-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
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John Hancock D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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