House roll call 260 · 40th Congress · Mar 6, 1868
To pass H. R. 870, (15 stat 360, june 19, 1868), a bill providing for the removal of political disabilities of r. R. Butler of tennessee.
On Mar 6, 1868, the House voted 88–23 (HR 870). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 65–18, Democrats 25–5, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 23 members voted against their own party.
During the 40th Congress (1867–1868), Andrew Johnson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 88
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 119
- Date
- Mar 6, 1868
By party
- Republicans65 yes · 18 no · 95 didn’t vote
- Democrats25 yes · 5 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA voted no
- Hiram Price R-IA voted no
- Abner Clark Harding R-IL voted no
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell R-IL voted no
- George Washington Julian R-IN voted no
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted no
- Sidney Clarke R-KS voted no
- George Madison Adams D-KY voted no
- John Denison Baldwin R-MA voted no
- Hiram Mccullough D-MD voted no
- Frederick Stone D-MD voted no
- Sidney Perham R-ME voted no
- Ignatius Donnelly R-MN voted no
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO voted no
- George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ voted no
- John Winthrop Chanler D-NY voted no
- James Madison Marvin R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Ward R-NY voted no
- Rufus Mallory R-OR voted no
- George Funston Miller R-PA voted no
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA voted no
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI voted no
- Amasa Cobb R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- Julius Hotchkiss D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- John Anthony Nicholson D-DE
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- Lewis Winans Ross D-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Green Berry Raum R-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- Asa Porter Grover D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Dawes Eliot R-MA
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Frederick Augustus Pike R-ME
- Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI
- Charles Upson R-MI
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- John Fletcher Driggs R-MI
- Carman Adam Newcomb R-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- Joseph Jackson Gravely R-MO
- Joseph Washington Mcclurg R-MO
- John Taffe R-NE
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- Charles Sitgreaves D-NJ
- Delos Rodeyn Ashley R-NV
- Stephen Taber D-NY
- Demas Barnes D-NY
- Thomas Elliott Stewart O-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- William Henry Robertson R-NY
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn D-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd R-NY
- William Craig Fields R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- William Slosson Lincoln R-NY
- Benjamin Eggleston R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- William Mungen D-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Tobias Avery Plants R-OH
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- Benjamin Markley Boyer D-PA
- John Martin Broomall R-PA
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- William Henry Koontz R-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- John Trimble R-TN
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- Chester Dorman Hubbard R-WV
- Bethuel Middleton Kitchen R-WV
- Daniel Haymond Polsley R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Abner Clark Harding R-IL
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell R-IL
- George Washington Julian R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Denison Baldwin R-MA
- Hiram Mccullough D-MD
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- Sidney Perham R-ME
- Ignatius Donnelly R-MN
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- George Armstrong Halsey R-NJ
- John Winthrop Chanler D-NY
- James Madison Marvin R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- Rufus Mallory R-OR
- George Funston Miller R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
Did not vote
- Francis William Kellogg R-AL
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Benjamin White Norris R-AL
- Charles Wilson Pierce R-AL
- John Benton Callis R-AL
- Thomas Haughey R-AL
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- James Hinds R-AR
- James Thomas Elliott R-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- William Higby R-CA
- Richard Dudley Hubbard D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- Joseph Wales Clift R-GA
- Nelson Tift D-GA
- William Posey Edwards R-GA
- Samuel Francis Gove R-GA
- Charles Henry Prince R-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- James Falconer Wilson R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Grenville Mellen Dodge R-IA
- Asahel Wheeler Hubbard R-IA
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- John Coburn R-IN
- Henry Dana Washburn R-IN
- Schuyler Colfax R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Samuel Mckee R-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- James Mann D-LA
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- Michel Vidal R-LA
- William Jasper Blackburn R-LA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Charles Edward Phelps O-MD
- Francis Thomas R-MD
- John Lynch R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- William Anderson Pile R-MO
- Thomas Estes Noell D-MO
- John Hubler Stover R-MO
- Benjamin Franklin Loan R-MO
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- George Washington Anderson R-MO
- John Robert French R-NC
- David Heaton R-NC
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC
- John Thomas Deweese R-NC
- Israel George Lash R-NC
- Nathaniel Boyden O-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- William Moore R-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- John Morrissey D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- John Augustus Griswold R-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- Lewis Selye O-NY
- Burt Van Horn R-NY
- James Morgan Humphrey D-NY
- Henry Van Aernam R-NY
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes R-OH
- Samuel Fenton Cary O-OH
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- Reader Wright Clarke R-OH
- Samuel Shellabarger R-OH
- Cornelius Springer Hamilton R-OH
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland R-OH
- James Mitchell Ashley R-OH
- Columbus Delano R-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Rufus Paine Spalding R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Thaddeus Stevens R-PA
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- Charles Denison D-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- Adam John Glossbrenner D-PA
- Stephen Fowler Wilson R-PA
- Darwin Asahel Finney R-PA
- Solomon Newton Pettis R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Kennedy Moorhead R-PA
- Thomas Williams R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Manuel Simeon Corley R-SC
- James Hamilton Goss R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- James Mullins R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Frederick Enoch Woodbridge R-VT
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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