Senate roll call 102 · 45th Congress · Jan 25, 1878
To consent to the nomination of mike j. Waldron as United States marshal for the western district of tennessee.
On Jan 25, 1878, the Senate voted 10–38. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–28, Democrats 10–9, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 9 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
- 10
- No
- 38
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Jan 25, 1878
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 28 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats10 yes · 9 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC voted no
- Francis Kernan D-NY voted no
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA voted no
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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