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On Apr 24, 1876, the House voted 147–77. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 139–2, Republicans 5–71, Others 1–4, Independents 2–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 7 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: 147
No: 77
Did not vote: 84
Date: Apr 24, 1876

By party

Republicans5 yes · 71 no · 35 didn’t vote
Democrats139 yes · 2 no · 47 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 4 no
Independents2 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
George Willard R-MI voted yes
Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted no
Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY voted yes
Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
Charles Hays R-AL
Horace Francis Page R-CA
John Turner Wait R-CT
William James Purman R-FL
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
James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
John Harris Baker R-IN
William Ripley Brown R-KS
John Daugherty White R-KY
Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
Frank Morey R-LA
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
William Pierce Frye R-ME
James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
Eugene Hale R-ME
William Brewster Williams R-MI
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
Horace Burton Strait R-MN
Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
John Roy Lynch R-MS
Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
Henry William Blair R-NH
Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
William Woodburn R-NV
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
Andrew Williams R-NY
William Almon Wheeler 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
Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
William Lawrence 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
William Darrah Kelley R-PA
Washington Townsend R-PA
John Black Packer R-PA
John Winfield Wallace R-PA
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
Robert Smalls R-SC
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
George Whitman Hendee R-VT
Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend the rules and pass a h. Res…: House Vote, Apr 24, 1876,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/44-H-73/to-suspend-the-rules-and-pass-a-h-res (accessed 2026-10-16).