Senate roll call 569 · 45th Congress · Mar 1, 1879
To amend H.R. 6462 by providing that no pension shall be paid to jefferson davis, the late President of the confederacy.
On Mar 1, 1879, the Senate voted 23–22 (HR 6462). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 24–1, Democrats 0–25. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member 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
- 23
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Mar 1, 1879
By party
- Republicans24 yes · 1 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 25 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John James Patterson R-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- 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
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- 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
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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