House roll call 187 · 41st Congress · Mar 23, 1870
To amend H.R. 1089, regarding laws in utah, by adding that the provisions of the act shall be extended to all the states and territories wherein the crime of po
On Mar 23, 1870, the House voted 43–115 (HR 1089). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 11–100, Democrats 29–15, Others 3–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 26 members voted against their own party.
During the 41st Congress (1869–1870), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 43
- No
- 115
- Did not vote
- 98
- Date
- Mar 23, 1870
By party
- Republicans11 yes · 100 no · 67 didn’t vote
- Democrats29 yes · 15 no · 28 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Charles Hays R-AL voted yes
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL voted no
- Thomas Boles R-AR voted yes
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA voted yes
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY voted no
- Oakes Ames R-MA voted yes
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD voted no
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN voted no
- George Emrick Harris R-MS voted yes
- Charles Haight D-NJ voted no
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ voted no
- Orestes Cleveland D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Fitch R-NV voted yes
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY voted no
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY voted no
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH voted yes
- William Mungen D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- John Roberts Reading D-PA voted no
- Lewis Tillman R-TN voted yes
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN voted yes
- William Jay Smith R-TN voted yes
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Crawford Sherrod D-AL
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers D-AR
- Thomas Boles R-AR
- Samuel Beach Axtell D-CA
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- James Augustus Johnson D-CA
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Thompson Ware Mcneely D-IL
- Albert George Burr D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- John Montgomery Crebs D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John McConnell Rice D-KY
- Oakes Ames R-MA
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Patrick Hamill D-MD
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- James Robinson Mccormick D-MO
- George Emrick Harris R-MS
- Thomas Fitch R-NV
- Henry Augustus Reeves D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- James Brooks D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- John Ashley Griswold D-NY
- Peter Wilson Strader D-OH
- Job Evans Stevenson R-OH
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson D-OH
- James Lawrence Getz D-PA
- George Washington Woodward D-PA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman D-PA
- Lewis Tillman R-TN
- Samuel Mayes Arnell R-TN
- William Jay Smith R-TN
- Richard Small Ayer R-VA
- Robert Ridgway O-VA
- Lewis Mckenzie O-VA
- James King Gibson O-VA
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Charles Waldron Buckley R-AL
- Peter Myndert Dox D-AL
- Julius Levi Strong R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William Smyth R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Francis Wayland Palmer R-IA
- Charles Pomeroy R-IA
- Norman Buel Judd R-IL
- John Franklin Farnsworth R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll R-IL
- Burton Chauncey Cook R-IL
- Jesse Hale Moore R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- John Breese Hay R-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George Washington Julian R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Sidney Clarke R-KS
- Lawrence Strother Trimble D-KY
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Ginery Twichell R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- George Merrick Brooks R-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Samuel Hambleton D-MD
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Fernando Cortez Beaman R-MI
- William Lewis Stoughton R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson D-MN
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg R-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Joel Funk Asper R-MO
- John Forbes Benjamin R-MO
- David Patterson Dyer R-MO
- Legrand Winfield Perce R-MS
- Oliver Hart Dockery R-NC
- John Taffe R-NE
- Jacob Hart Ela R-NH
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens R-NH
- William Moore R-NJ
- Charles Haight D-NJ
- John Taylor Bird D-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- Orestes Cleveland D-NJ
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin D-NY
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner R-NY
- Orange Ferriss R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Stephen Sanford R-NY
- Charles Knapp R-NY
- Addison Henry Laflin R-NY
- John Charles Churchill R-NY
- Dennis Mccarthy R-NY
- William Henry Kelsey R-NY
- Hamilton Ward R-NY
- David Smith Bennett R-NY
- Robert Cumming Schenck R-OH
- William Mungen D-OH
- John Armstrong Smith R-OH
- James January Winans R-OH
- John Beatty R-OH
- John Thomas Wilson R-OH
- Martin Welker R-OH
- Eliakim Hastings Moore R-OH
- Jacob A. Ambler R-OH
- William Hanford Upson R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Roberts Reading D-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Oliver James Dickey R-PA
- Ulysses Mercur R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan R-PA
- John Covode R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Darwin Phelps R-PA
- Joseph Benton Donley R-PA
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- William Brickly Stokes R-TN
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins R-TN
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Worthington Curtis Smith R-VT
- Halbert Eleazer Paine R-WI
- David Atwood R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn R-WI
- Isaac Harding Duval R-WV
- James Clark Mcgrew R-WV
Did not vote
- Alfred Eliab Buck R-AL
- Robert Stell Heflin R-AL
- Logan Holt Roots R-AR
- Benjamin Thomas Biggs D-DE
- Charles Memorial Hamilton R-FL
- William Wiseham Paine D-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Marion Bethune R-GA
- Jefferson Franklin Long R-GA
- Stephen Alfestus Corker D-GA
- William Pierce Price D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- William Penn Wolf R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne R-IL
- William Northcut Sweeney D-KY
- Jacob Shall Golladay D-KY
- Joseph Horace Lewis D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Boyd Winchester D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Parkinson Newsham R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Frederick Stone D-MD
- John Lynch R-ME
- Samuel Plummer Morrill R-ME
- Austin Blair R-MI
- Randolph Strickland R-MI
- Morton Smith Wilkinson R-MN
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd R-MO
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett R-MO
- Joseph Lewis Morphis R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- David Heaton R-NC
- Joseph Dixon R-NC
- John Manning Jr. D-NC
- John Thomas Deweese R-NC
- Israel George Lash R-NC
- Francis Edwin Shober D-NC
- Alexander Hamilton Jones R-NC
- Jacob Benton R-NH
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fox D-NY
- John Morrissey D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- George Woodward Greene D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey R-NY
- George Washington Cowles R-NY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss R-NY
- Charles Horace Holmes R-NY
- Noah Davis R-NY
- John Fisher R-NY
- Porter Sheldon R-NY
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Erasmus Darwin Peck R-OH
- Truman Harrison Hoag D-OH
- Philadelph Van Trump D-OH
- George Washington Morgan D-OH
- John Armor Bingham R-OH
- Joseph Showalter Smith D-OR
- John Moffet D-PA
- Caleb Newbold Taylor R-PA
- John Dodson Stiles D-PA
- Henry Lutz Cake R-PA
- Daniel Myers Van Auken D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- William Hepburn Armstrong R-PA
- Thomas Allen Jenckes R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Benjamin Franklin Whittemore R-SC
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Christopher Columbus Bowen R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- William Farrand Prosser R-TN
- George Washington Whitmore R-TX
- John Coggswell Conner D-TX
- William Thomas Clark R-TX
- Edward Degener R-TX
- Charles Howell Porter R-VA
- George William Booker O-VA
- Richard Thomas Walker Duke O-VA
- William Milnes Jr. O-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Benjamin Franklin Hopkins R-WI
- Amasa Cobb R-WI
- John Seashoal Witcher R-WV
Other votes
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