Senate roll call 408 · 45th Congress · Feb 5, 1879
To pass the first resolution declaring that these amendments, having been ratified, the subject of common interest to all the people, it is the duty of the exec
On Feb 5, 1879, the Senate voted 23–17. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 28–0, Democrats 0–26. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 23
- No
- 17
- Did not vote
- 28
- Date
- Feb 5, 1879
By party
- Republicans28 yes · 0 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 26 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison 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
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-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
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- 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
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman 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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