Senate roll call 169 · 45th Congress · Mar 25, 1878
To consent to the nomination of lewis e. Parsons as United States attorney for the northern and middle districts of alabama.
On Mar 25, 1878, the Senate voted 17–22. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 4–20, Democrats 13–1, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 5 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
- 17
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Mar 25, 1878
By party
- Republicans4 yes · 20 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats13 yes · 1 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Newton Booth R-CA voted yes
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted yes
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- 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
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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