House roll call 127 · 45th Congress · Apr 9, 1878
To order the main question on adoption of a resolution providing that H.R. 4247, a bill retiring the national bank circulatory notes, be made a special order fo
On Apr 9, 1878, the House voted 126–106 (HR 4247). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 105–18, Republicans 23–93, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 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
- 126
- No
- 106
- Did not vote
- 61
- Date
- Apr 9, 1878
By party
- Democrats105 yes · 18 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans23 yes · 93 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted yes
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN voted yes
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted yes
- John Hanna R-IN voted yes
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted yes
- Michael Doherty White R-IN voted yes
- William Henry Calkins R-IN voted yes
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted yes
- John Harris Baker R-IN voted yes
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Ryan R-KS voted yes
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA voted no
- Benjamin Dean D-MA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD voted no
- Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO voted yes
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted yes
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO voted yes
- Frank Jones D-NH voted no
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
- Fernando Wood D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY voted no
- Andrew Williams R-NY voted yes
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted yes
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted yes
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- Harry White R-PA voted yes
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted yes
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones 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
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-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
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Kimmel D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner 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
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- John Hamilton Evins 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
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Hiram Price 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
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- 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
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James 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
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Levi Warner D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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