Senate roll call 65 · 47th Congress · Mar 31, 1881
To go into executive session to consider the nomination for judge of the fifth judicial circuit of georgia, thereby terminating consideration of the resolution
On Mar 31, 1881, the Senate voted 23–26. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–30, Democrats 25–0, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), James A. Garfield was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 23
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 27
- Date
- Mar 31, 1881
By party
- Democrats25 yes · 0 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 30 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Windom R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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