House roll call 7 · 43rd Congress · Dec 8, 1873
To adjourn, motion made during debate in H.R. 473, a supplemental civil rights bill.
On Dec 8, 1873, the House voted 106–144. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 23–143, Democrats 82–0, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 23 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
- 106
- No
- 144
- Did not vote
- 54
- Date
- Dec 8, 1873
By party
- Others1 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans23 yes · 143 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Democrats82 yes · 0 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Alexander White R-AL voted yes
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL voted yes
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA voted yes
- Jackson Orr R-IA voted yes
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL voted yes
- Granville Barrere R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- Jasper Packard R-IN voted yes
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN voted yes
- Alvah Crocker R-MA voted yes
- Eugene Hale R-ME voted yes
- William Brewster Williams R-MI voted yes
- John Thomas Averill R-MN voted yes
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO voted yes
- Jason Niles R-MS voted yes
- William Bradbury Small R-NH voted yes
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY voted yes
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY voted yes
- Lemuel Todd R-PA voted yes
- William Crutchfield R-TN voted yes
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frederick George Bromberg O-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss D-AL
- Alexander White R-AL
- Charles Christopher Sheats R-AL
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Sherman Otis Houghton R-CA
- Morgan Rawls D-GA
- 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
- Jackson Orr R-IA
- John Baldwin Hawley R-IL
- Granville Barrere R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Samuel Scott Marshall D-IL
- William Ellis Niblack D-IN
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Jasper Packard R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-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
- Alvah Crocker R-MA
- Ephraim King Wilson D-MD
- Stevenson Archer D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- John Thomas Averill R-MN
- Edwin Obed Stanard R-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone 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
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Jason Niles R-MS
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- William Bradbury Small R-NH
- Hosea Washington Parker D-NH
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Marcus Lawrence Ward R-NJ
- Charles West Kendall D-NV
- John Godfrey Schumaker 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
- Eli Perry D-NY
- Robert Safford Hale R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Charles Nelson Lamison D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Hugh Judge Jewett D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- John Berry D-OH
- James Willis Nesmith D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Alexander Magee D-PA
- Robert Milton Speer D-PA
- Lemuel Todd R-PA
- William Crutchfield R-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-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
- Alexander Mathews Davis D-VA
- Thomas Whitehead D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Rees Tate Bowen D-VA
- Charles Wesley Willard R-VT
- Alexander Mitchell D-WI
- Charles Augustus Eldredge D-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Thomas Rapier R-AL
- Charles Pelham R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Oliver P. Snyder R-AR
- William Joseph Hynes O-AR
- Charles Clayton R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Stephen Wright Kellogg R-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- James Rush Lofland R-DE
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William James Purman R-FL
- James Crawford Freeman R-GA
- Aylett Rains Cotton R-IA
- William G. Donnan R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Blake Rice R-IL
- Jasper Delos Ward R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- John Mcnulta 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
- William Williams R-IN
- David Perley Lowe R-KS
- Stephen Alonzo Cobb R-KS
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Jacob Hale Sypher R-LA
- Lionel Allen Sheldon R-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- George Luke Smith R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Samuel Hooper R-MA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar R-MA
- John McKeown Snow Williams R-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. R-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Moses Whelock Field R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Josiah Williams Begole R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Isaac Charles Parker R-MO
- Ira Barnes Hyde R-MO
- Albert Richards Howe R-MS
- George Colin Mckee R-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Clinton Levering Cobb R-NC
- William Alexander Smith R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Austin Franklin Pike R-NH
- John Wright Hazelton R-NJ
- Amos Clark Jr. R-NJ
- Isaac Williamson Scudder R-NJ
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford R-NY
- John Daniel Lawson R-NY
- David Batcheller Mellish R-NY
- James Stevenson Smart R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Clinton Levi Merriam R-NY
- Ellis Henry Roberts R-NY
- William Esselstyne Lansing R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- William Henry Lamport 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
- John Quincy Smith R-OH
- Lewis B. Gunckel R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood R-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- James Wallace Robinson R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- William Peter Sprague R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Richard Chappel Parsons R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Leonard Myers R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- James Soloman Biery R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker R-PA
- James Dale Strawbridge R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- John Cessna R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis R-PA
- Hiram Lawton Richmond R-PA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Ebenezer Mcjunkin R-PA
- Charles Albright R-PA
- Glenni William Scofield R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- James Monroe Pendleton R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier R-SC
- Robert Brown Elliott R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Horace Harrison Harrison R-TN
- David Alexander Nunn R-TN
- Barbour Lewis R-TN
- Horace Maynard R-TN
- James Beverley Sener R-VA
- James Henry Platt Jr. R-VA
- John Ambler Smith R-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Joel Allen Barber R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Asa Hodges R-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire R-AR
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Andrew Sloan R-GA
- Richard Henry Whiteley R-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- William Loughridge R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Franklin Corwin R-IL
- William Henry Ray R-IL
- James Carroll Robinson D-IL
- Effingham Lawrence D-LA
- George Augustus Sheridan O-LA
- Charles Abbot Stevens R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Julian Albert R-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Samuel Freeman Hersey R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Wilder De Ayr Foster R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Harrison Eugene Havens R-MO
- Henry W. Barry R-MS
- Charles Randolph Thomas R-NC
- James Madison Leach D-NC
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Henry Joel Scudder R-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Philip Schuyler Crooke R-NY
- William Randall Roberts D-NY
- Richard Schell D-NY
- Charles St. John R-NY
- David Miller De Witt D-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell R-NY
- Freeman Clarke R-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning O-OH
- William Edward Finck D-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- William Sutton Moore R-PA
- Lewis Cass Carpenter R-SC
- Christopher Yancy Thomas R-VA
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton R-WI
- Alexander Stuart Mcdill R-WI
- John James Davis O-WV
- John Marshall Hagans R-WV
Other votes
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