House roll call 1 · 48th Congress · Dec 3, 1883
Election of speaker of House Of Representatives j. G. Carlisle (dem.), j. W. Keifer (rep.), e. S. Lacey (rep.), g. D. Robinson, j. W. Wadsworth (rep.) j. S. Wis
On Dec 3, 1883, the House voted 187–2. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 184–0, Republicans 109–2, Others 8–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 2 members voted against their own party.
During the 48th Congress (1883–1884), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 187
- No
- 2
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Dec 3, 1883
By party
- Democrats184 yes · 0 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans109 yes · 2 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 1 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Daugherty White R-KY voted no
- Darwin Rush James R-NY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
Voted present
Did not vote
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Milo White R-MN
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Winans D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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