Senate roll call 338 · 44th Congress · Aug 14, 1876
To consider a resolution providing that the President of the Senate and the speaker of the House Of Representatives be, and they are hereby directed, to adjourn
On Aug 14, 1876, the Senate voted 21–24. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–23, Democrats 18–0, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 3 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
- 21
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Aug 14, 1876
By party
- Republicans3 yes · 23 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats18 yes · 0 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted yes
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE voted yes
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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