House roll call 91 · 44th Congress · May 27, 1876
To recommit H.R. 2935, a bill promoting the efficiency of the army of the U.S. By providing for gradual reduction and consolidation of certain staff departments
On May 27, 1876, the House voted 16–113 (HR 2935). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 3–113, Republicans 12–1, Others 2–0, Independents 0–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 4 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
- 16
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 175
- Date
- May 27, 1876
By party
- Republicans12 yes · 1 no · 98 didn’t vote
- Democrats3 yes · 113 no · 72 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Allen Potter D-MI voted yes
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted yes
- William Lawrence R-OH voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- 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
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- 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
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden 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
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- 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
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- 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
- 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
- John Robbins D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert 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
- 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
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-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 Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr 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
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- George Willard R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Smith King R-MN
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- David Dudley Field 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
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- 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
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas 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
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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