House roll call 118 · 45th Congress · Apr 4, 1878
To adopt 2 substitute resolutions for a resolution relating to allegations of misconduct against john w. Polk, the doorkeeper of the house. Substitute #1, prov
On Apr 4, 1878, the House voted 95–135. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 95–38, Republicans 4–106, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 42 members voted against their own party.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 95
- No
- 135
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Apr 4, 1878
By party
- Democrats95 yes · 38 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans4 yes · 106 no · 32 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Levi Warner D-CT voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA voted no
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL voted no
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- William Hartzell D-IL voted no
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN voted no
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
- Thomas Turner D-KY voted no
- John Blades Clarke D-KY voted no
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA voted no
- Edward White Robertson D-LA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD voted no
- William Walsh D-MD voted no
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted no
- David Rea D-MO voted no
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Frank Welch R-NE voted yes
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
- Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA voted no
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA voted no
- Jacob Turney D-PA voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted yes
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA voted no
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA voted yes
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- 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
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Davis R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- Edwin William Keightley R-MI
- John Wesley Stone R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
Other votes
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