Senate roll call 323 · 43rd Congress · Feb 17, 1875
To adjourn due to late hour, motion postponing debate on resolution to seat p.b.s. Pinchback, as senator from louisiana for the term of six years from march 4,
On Feb 17, 1875, the Senate voted 9–33. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–33, Democrats 8–0, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 2 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
- 9
- No
- 33
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Feb 17, 1875
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 33 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats8 yes · 0 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI voted yes
- James Lusk Alcorn R-MS voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Powell Clayton R-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- George Grover Wright R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- 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
- Zachariah Chandler 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
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Arthur Inghram Boreman R-WV
Did not vote
- George Goldthwaite D-AL
- Eugene Casserly D-CA
- John Sharpenstein Hager D-CA
- Orris Sanford Ferry O-CT
- William Alfred Buckingham R-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Abijah Gilbert R-FL
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John Alexander Logan 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
- William Thomas Hamilton D-MD
- Carl Schurz O-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Adelbert Ames R-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock R-NE
- Thomas Weston Tipton O-NE
- Reuben Eaton Fenton O-NY
- James Kerr Kelly D-OR
- 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
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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