House roll call 226 · 44th Congress · Dec 21, 1876
To amend a h. Res. Calling for an investigation of alleged tampering with mails of a. Hewitt, by directing the committee to investigate whether any letter passi
On Dec 21, 1876, the House voted 116–69. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 114–9, Republicans 1–59, Others 1–1, Independents 1–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 10 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
- 116
- No
- 69
- Did not vote
- 121
- Date
- Dec 21, 1876
By party
- Republicans1 yes · 59 no · 51 didn’t vote
- Democrats114 yes · 9 no · 65 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted yes
- Allen Potter D-MI voted no
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO voted no
- William Henry Stone D-MO voted no
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted no
- Joseph Powell D-PA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates 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
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- John Luther Vance 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
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright 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
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- 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
- 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
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- 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
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Allen Potter D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth 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
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Smith King R-MN
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-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
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- John Ford House D-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
Other votes
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