Senate roll call 84 · 45th Congress · Dec 1, 1877
To adjourn, made during consideration of the nomination of owen p. Fitzsimmons as marshal of georgia in place of w.h. Smythe.
On Dec 1, 1877, the Senate voted 20–30. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 20–5, Democrats 0–24, 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
- 20
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Dec 1, 1877
By party
- Republicans20 yes · 5 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Democrats0 yes · 24 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL voted no
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted no
- Stanley Matthews R-OH voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted no
- John James Patterson R-SC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- 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
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-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
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- 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
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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