House roll call 41 · 44th Congress · Mar 13, 1876
To suspend the rules and pass a h. Res. Providing that the people of the United States constitute a federal union formed by the people of several states and tha
On Mar 13, 1876, the House voted 151–42. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 131–1, Republicans 21–41, Others 1–2, Independents 2–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 22 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
- 151
- No
- 42
- Did not vote
- 108
- Date
- Mar 13, 1876
By party
- Republicans21 yes · 41 no · 49 didn’t vote
- Democrats131 yes · 1 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Independents2 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson R-IA voted yes
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA voted yes
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted yes
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- George Willard R-MI voted yes
- William Brewster Williams R-MI voted yes
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted yes
- William Woodburn R-NV voted yes
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY voted yes
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY voted yes
- John Madison Davy R-NY voted yes
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY voted yes
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted yes
- Washington Townsend R-PA voted yes
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT 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
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- 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
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell 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
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- 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
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- William Henry Stone 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
- 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
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- 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
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly 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
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright 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
- 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
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- William James Purman R-FL
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- William Smith King R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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