House roll call 33 · 44th Congress · Feb 24, 1876
To amend H.R. 2286 (19 stat 55, 5/23/76), a bill providing for the construction of a custom-house, post office and court rooms in the city of memphis, by reduci
On Feb 24, 1876, the House voted 132–104 (HR 2286). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 88–58, Republicans 39–44, Independents 3–1, Others 2–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 97 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
- 132
- No
- 104
- Did not vote
- 72
- Date
- Feb 24, 1876
By party
- Republicans39 yes · 44 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Democrats88 yes · 58 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Independents3 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL voted no
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted no
- William Adam Piper D-CA voted no
- John King Luttrell D-CA voted no
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA voted no
- Julian Hartridge D-GA voted no
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA voted no
- Philip Cook D-GA voted no
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA voted no
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- James Wilson R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA voted yes
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL voted no
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted yes
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted yes
- Franklin Landers D-IN voted no
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted yes
- John Harris Baker R-IN voted yes
- Charles William Milliken D-KY voted no
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY voted no
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
- John Daugherty White R-KY voted yes
- William Mallory Levy D-LA voted no
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA voted yes
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA voted yes
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted yes
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD voted no
- William James O'Brien D-MD voted no
- William Walsh D-MD voted no
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME voted yes
- William Pierce Frye R-ME voted yes
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME voted yes
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted yes
- Henry Waldron R-MI voted yes
- George Willard R-MI voted yes
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted yes
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO voted no
- Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted no
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- Andrew Williams R-NY voted yes
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY voted yes
- Scott Lord D-NY voted no
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY voted yes
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY voted yes
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH voted no
- William Lawrence R-OH voted yes
- Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted yes
- James Monroe R-OH voted yes
- James Abram Garfield R-OH voted yes
- Henry B. Payne D-OH voted no
- La Fayette Lane D-OR voted no
- Washington Townsend R-PA voted yes
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted yes
- Sobieski Ross R-PA voted yes
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA voted no
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI voted yes
- William Mcfarland D-TN voted no
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN voted no
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN voted no
- John Ford House D-TN voted no
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
And 17 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard 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
- 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
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal 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
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish 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
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- 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
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace 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 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
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Woodburn R-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
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