Senate roll call 73 · 46th Congress · May 19, 1879
To concur in an amendment to H.R. 2, adding postmaster general. (p. 1465-1)
On May 19, 1879, the Senate voted 25–26 (HR 2). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 5–23, Republicans 21–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 8 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
- 25
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 29
- Date
- May 19, 1879
By party
- Democrats5 yes · 23 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans21 yes · 3 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR voted yes
- Newton Booth R-CA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted yes
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN voted yes
- William Windom R-MN voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX voted yes
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Windom R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- 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
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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