Senate roll call 80 · 50th Congress · Apr 11, 1888
To pass a resolution providing for the appointment of jared lawrence rathbour as consul general at paris.
On Apr 11, 1888, the Senate voted 43–8. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 18–11, Republicans 28–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 11 members voted against their own party.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 43
- No
- 8
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Apr 11, 1888
By party
- Democrats18 yes · 11 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans28 yes · 0 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL voted no
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- James Henderson Berry D-AR voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- David Turpie D-IN voted no
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- Richard Coke D-TX voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Leland Stanford R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- George Gray D-DE
- Samuel Pasco D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Alfred Holt Colquitt D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Francis Brown Stockbridge R-MI
- Thomas Witherell Palmer R-MI
- Cushman Kellogg Davis R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Edward Cary Walthall D-MS
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Charles Frederick Manderson R-NE
- William Eaton Chandler R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Rufus Blodgett D-NJ
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- William Maxwell Evarts R-NY
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Joseph Norton Dolph R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- William Brimage Bate D-TN
- Harrison Holt Riddleberger R-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- David Turpie D-IN
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Richard Coke D-TX
Did not vote
- George Hearst D-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Thomas Mead Bowen R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Dwight May Sabin R-MN
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Matthew Stanley Quay R-PA
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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