House roll call 340 · 51st Congress · Aug 18, 1890
To adopt the resolution that the contested election between james b. Morgan and james r. Chalmers for a seat as representative in the 51st Congress from the 2nd
On Aug 18, 1890, the House voted 31–136. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 0–84, Republicans 30–54, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 30 members voted against their own party.
During the 51st Congress (1889–1890), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 31
- No
- 136
- Did not vote
- 181
- Date
- Aug 18, 1890
By party
- Democrats0 yes · 84 no · 83 didn’t vote
- Republicans30 yes · 54 no · 98 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL voted yes
- William Vandever R-CA voted yes
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT voted yes
- John Henry Gear R-IA voted yes
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- James Patton Flick R-IA voted yes
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA voted yes
- George Everett Adams R-IL voted yes
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL voted yes
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- William Dale Owen R-IN voted yes
- Harrison Kelley R-KS voted yes
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS voted yes
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA voted yes
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA voted yes
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD voted yes
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted yes
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted yes
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO voted yes
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND voted yes
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH voted yes
- James Buchanan R-NJ voted yes
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV voted yes
- John Raines R-NY voted yes
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY voted yes
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH voted yes
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH voted yes
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- William Vandever R-CA
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- John Raines R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
How each representative voted: No
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William James Connell R-NE
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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