Senate roll call 405 · 45th Congress · Feb 5, 1879
To amend the resolution by declaring the equality of the several states of the union, the rights of all citizens to share equally in all rights under the consti
On Feb 5, 1879, the Senate voted 11–30. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–24, Democrats 12–7. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 8 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
- 11
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 38
- Date
- Feb 5, 1879
By party
- Republicans1 yes · 24 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats12 yes · 7 no · 19 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted no
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted yes
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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