Senate roll call 321 · 43rd Congress · Feb 17, 1875
To adjourn, due to the late hour, motion postponing debate on seating p.b.s. Pinchback, as senator from louisiana for the term of six years from march 4, 1873.
On Feb 17, 1875, the Senate voted 11–29. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–29, Democrats 10–0, Others 2–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 43rd Congress (1873–1874), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 11
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Feb 17, 1875
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 29 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Democrats10 yes · 0 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Sharpenstein Hager D-CA
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Reuben Eaton Fenton O-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- Henry Cooper D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- Daniel Darwin Pratt R-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Joseph Rodman West R-LA
- George Sewel Boutwell R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Lot Myrick Morrill R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alexander Ramsey R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Henry Roberts Pease R-MS
- Aaron Harrison Cragin R-NH
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Morris Stewart R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- John Scott R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- William Sprague O-RI
- James Winright Flanagan R-TX
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry O-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Alexander Caldwell R-KS
- James Madison Harvey R-KS
- Robert Crozier R-KS
- John White Stevenson D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- Charles Sumner O-MA
- William Barrett Washburn R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Thomas Weston Tipton O-NE
- John Potter Stockton D-NJ
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Thomas James Robertson R-SC
- William Gannaway Brownlow R-TN
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton O-TX
- John Francis Lewis R-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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