To agree to a resolution providing that H.R. 4286, a bill establishing post-routes in several given states, with the Senate amendments thereto be returned to TH

On Jun 14, 1878, the House voted 169–68. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 102–27, Republicans 69–42, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 69 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: 169
No: 68
Did not vote: 60
Date: Jun 14, 1878

By party

Democrats102 yes · 27 no · 29 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 1 no
Republicans69 yes · 42 no · 31 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR voted no
John King Luttrell D-CA voted no
Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO voted no
John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
Hiram Price R-IA voted no
Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA voted no
Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA voted no
Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA voted no
Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted no
Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted no
Randall Lee Gibson D-LA voted no
Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA voted no
Joseph Barton Elam D-LA voted no
Edward White Robertson D-LA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
William Claflin R-MA voted no
William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI voted no
Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN voted no
Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO voted no
Nathan Cole R-MO voted no
Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted no
Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS voted no
Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted no
James Ronald Chalmers D-MS voted no
Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC voted no
Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
Frank Welch R-NE voted no
Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ voted no
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
Andrew Williams R-NY voted no
George Augustus Bagley R-NY voted no
William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted no
Charles Foster R-OH voted no
Henry Safford Neal R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
Richard Williams R-OR voted no
William Ward R-PA voted no
Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
Russell Errett R-PA voted no
Robert Smalls R-SC voted no
George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN voted no
Hiram Casey Young D-TN voted no
John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
James Webb Throckmorton D-TX voted no
Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX voted no
Gustave Schleicher D-TX voted no
John Goode Jr. D-VA voted no
John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI voted no
Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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