House roll call 451 · 43rd Congress · Feb 27, 1875
To amend H.R. 4745, by striking criminal sanction sections from the bill.
On Feb 27, 1875, the House voted 119–126 (HR 4745). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 40–127, Democrats 78–1, Others 4–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 members voted against their own party.
During the 43rd Congress (1873–1874), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 119
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 53
- Date
- Feb 27, 1875
By party
- Others4 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans40 yes · 127 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Democrats78 yes · 1 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT voted yes
- John Adam Kasson R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA voted yes
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted yes
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted yes
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA voted yes
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA voted yes
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA voted yes
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA voted yes
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA voted yes
- William Julian Albert R-MD voted yes
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD voted yes
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME voted yes
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted yes
- George Willard R-MI voted yes
- William Brewster Williams R-MI voted yes
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted yes
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO voted yes
- William Alexander Smith R-NC voted yes
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE voted yes
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ voted yes
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY voted yes
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY voted yes
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY voted yes
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY voted yes
- Freeman Clarke R-NY voted yes
- John Quincy Smith R-OH voted yes
- Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH voted yes
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted yes
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted yes
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI voted yes
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN voted yes
- James Beverley Sener R-VA voted yes
- John Ambler Smith R-VA voted yes
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Pierce Manning Butler Young D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- Edward Crossland D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- William Brown Read D-KY
- Elisha David Standiford D-KY
- William Evans Arthur D-KY
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- George Madison Adams D-KY
- John Duncan Young D-KY
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- George Willard R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Abram Comingo D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Thomas James Creamer D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- Eli Perry D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Smith Herndon D-TX
- William Pinkney Mclean D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Asa Hoxie Willie D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- John James Davis O-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- John Mcnulta R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Stewart Martin R-IL
- Isaac Clements R-IL
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson R-IN
- John Coburn R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James Noble Tyner R-IN
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks R-IN
- Henry Benton Sayler R-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Horace Boardman Smith R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Lyman Tremain R-NY
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Did not vote
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- William Henry Lamport R-NY
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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