House roll call 330 · 45th Congress · Feb 20, 1879
To adopt a resolution of committee on elections, providing that horatio bisbee, JR. Is not and jesse j. Finley is entitled to the seat as representative from TH
On Feb 20, 1879, the House voted 131–122. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 141–3, Republicans 0–131, Others 2–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 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
- 131
- No
- 122
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Feb 20, 1879
By party
- Democrats141 yes · 3 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans0 yes · 131 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL voted no
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
- Jacob Turney D-PA 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
- Levi Warner D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- 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
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie 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
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-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
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-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
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- 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
- 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
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson 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
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- 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
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- 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
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale 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
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth 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
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Mosher Bailey 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
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal 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
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- 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
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- James Williams D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
Other votes
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