Senate roll call 426 · 44th Congress · Mar 3, 1877
To recede from amendments to H.R. 4187, (19 stat. 383), a bill making appropriations for the service of the post office department for the fiscal year ending ju
On Mar 3, 1877, the Senate voted 29–11 (HR 4187). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 13–8, Democrats 16–2, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 10 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
- 29
- No
- 11
- Did not vote
- 42
- Date
- Mar 3, 1877
By party
- Republicans13 yes · 8 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Democrats16 yes · 2 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN voted no
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA voted no
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted no
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME voted no
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted no
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO voted no
- William Sharon R-NV voted no
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR voted no
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Newton Booth O-CA
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- William Sharon R-NV
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- James Edward English D-CT
- Orris Sanford Ferry R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- 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
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Andrew Johnson D-TN
- David McKendree Key D-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton R-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Allen Taylor Caperton D-WV
- Samuel Price D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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