House roll call 37 · 49th Congress · Mar 26, 1886
To recess until 7--30 p.m., motion made during consideration of H. R. 37, a bill to change the rank of an officer on the retired list of the army.
On Mar 26, 1886, the House voted 108–74. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 83–25, Republicans 24–48, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 49 members voted against their own party.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 108
- No
- 74
- Did not vote
- 151
- Date
- Mar 26, 1886
By party
- Democrats83 yes · 25 no · 80 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 48 no · 71 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Mason Martin D-AL voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- John Turner Wait R-CT voted yes
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Jonas George Howard D-IN voted no
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS voted yes
- William Johnson Stone D-KY voted no
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted yes
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD voted no
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME voted yes
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI voted no
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI voted yes
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN voted yes
- William Henry Hatch D-MO voted no
- William Joel Stone D-MO voted no
- John Mills Allen D-MS voted no
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC voted yes
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC voted no
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC voted no
- James Laird R-NE voted yes
- George Hires R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- John Swinburne R-NY voted yes
- George West R-NY voted yes
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY voted yes
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY voted yes
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY voted yes
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY voted yes
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted no
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA voted yes
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA voted yes
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA voted yes
- Franklin Bound R-PA voted yes
- William Wallace Brown R-PA voted yes
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted yes
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN voted yes
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN voted yes
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN voted no
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- Harry Libbey R-VA voted yes
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- 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
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- George Hires R-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- John Little R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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