Senate roll call 418 · 44th Congress · Feb 28, 1877
To read the testimony taken by the electoral commission in the south carolina electoral vote. This motion was made during consideration of the resolution refer
On Feb 28, 1877, the Senate voted 21–41. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–38, Democrats 21–2, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 2 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
- 41
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Feb 28, 1877
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 38 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Democrats21 yes · 2 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- John Brown Gordon D-GA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth O-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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