House roll call 38 · 44th Congress · Mar 7, 1876
To pass a h. Res., providing that the committee on expenditures in the war department and its members are directed to disregard the supreme court mandate for do
On Mar 7, 1876, the House voted 131–75. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 125–0, Republicans 2–73, Independents 3–1, Others 1–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 2 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
- 131
- No
- 75
- Did not vote
- 102
- Date
- Mar 7, 1876
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 73 no · 36 didn’t vote
- Democrats125 yes · 0 no · 63 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents3 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- 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
- 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
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Allen Potter 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
- Charles Henry Morgan 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
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner 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
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- 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
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Joseph Powell 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
- 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
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills 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 Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-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
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- George Willard R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall 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
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- William Smith King R-MN
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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