House roll call 243 · 45th Congress · Jun 17, 1878
To adjourn the house.
On Jun 17, 1878, the House voted 69–99. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 57–28, Republicans 11–71, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 39 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
- 69
- No
- 99
- Did not vote
- 134
- Date
- Jun 17, 1878
By party
- Democrats57 yes · 28 no · 73 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans11 yes · 71 no · 60 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
- Rush Clark R-IA voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL voted yes
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL voted no
- William Henry Calkins R-IN voted yes
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted yes
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY voted no
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
- Benjamin Dean D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted yes
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted no
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO voted no
- David Rea D-MO voted no
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ voted no
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY voted no
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted yes
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted yes
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH voted no
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH voted no
- Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- Jacob Turney D-PA voted no
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI voted yes
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV voted no
- John Edward Kenna D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- James Williams D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates 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
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- George Gibbs Dibrell 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
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering 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
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- 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
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. 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
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- 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
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-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
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.