Senate roll call 427 · 46th Congress · Jan 7, 1881
To adjourn.
On Jan 7, 1881, the Senate voted 20–31. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 18–9, Republicans 2–22. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 11 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
- 20
- No
- 31
- Did not vote
- 30
- Date
- Jan 7, 1881
By party
- Democrats18 yes · 9 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 22 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted no
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted no
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted no
- William Windom R-MN voted yes
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ voted no
- James Harvey Slater D-OR voted no
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
Other votes
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