To pass H.R. 2797, (21 stat. 545, 6/8/80), a bill refunding tobacco taxes improperly collected from certain citizens of lynchburg, VA.

On Feb 13, 1880, the House voted 150–39 (HR 2797). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 86–9, Republicans 51–31, Others 14–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 40 members voted against their own party.

During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 150
No: 39
Did not vote: 109
Date: Feb 13, 1880

By party

Democrats86 yes · 9 no · 51 didn’t vote
Others14 yes · 1 no · 5 didn’t vote
Republicans51 yes · 31 no · 53 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Horace Francis Page R-CA voted no
Romualdo Pacheco R-CA voted no
Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA voted no
Hiram Price R-IA voted no
Thomas Updegraff R-IA voted no
William George Thompson R-IA voted no
William Aldrich R-IL voted no
George Royal Davis R-IL voted no
Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL voted no
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
John Robert Thomas R-IL voted no
William Ralph Myers D-IN voted no
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE voted no
Evarts Worcester Farr R-NH voted no
Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ voted no
James Way Covert D-NY voted no
John Hammond R-NY voted no
Amaziah Bailey James R-NY voted no
John Henry Starin R-NY voted no
Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted no
Ray Vaughn Pierce R-NY voted no
Henry Van Aernam R-NY voted no
Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted no
Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted no
Gibson Atherton D-OH voted no
John Whiteaker D-OR voted no
William Godshalk R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted no
Harry White R-PA voted no
James H. Osmer R-PA voted no
Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN voted no
George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI voted no
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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