Senate roll call 367 · 44th Congress · Jan 17, 1877
To amend the Senate rules relating to consideration of the report of committee on rules revising and rearranging the standing rules of the Senate, by eliminatin
On Jan 17, 1877, the Senate voted 14–28. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–23, Democrats 13–4, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 5 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
- 14
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Jan 17, 1877
By party
- Republicans1 yes · 23 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Democrats13 yes · 4 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- George Goldthwaite D-AL voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY voted no
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC voted yes
- Samuel Price D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Samuel Price D-WV
Did not vote
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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