House roll call 132 · 44th Congress · Jul 6, 1876
To amend H.R. 2685, by providing that no claim shall be admissable or allowed by court to any insurance company or insurer unless the claimant shows that during
On Jul 6, 1876, the House voted 35–151 (HR 2685). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 30–94, Republicans 9–56, Independents 0–3, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 39 members voted against their own party.
During the 44th Congress (1875–1876), Ulysses S. Grant was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 35
- No
- 151
- Did not vote
- 114
- Date
- Jul 6, 1876
By party
- Republicans9 yes · 56 no · 46 didn’t vote
- Democrats30 yes · 94 no · 64 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted yes
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted yes
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY voted yes
- Charles William Milliken D-KY voted yes
- James Proctor Knott D-KY voted yes
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY voted yes
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted yes
- John Blades Clarke D-KY voted yes
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA voted yes
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA voted yes
- Henry Waldron R-MI voted yes
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted yes
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO voted yes
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted yes
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS voted yes
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted yes
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC voted yes
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted yes
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted yes
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted yes
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted yes
- Elijah Ward D-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted yes
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY voted yes
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY voted yes
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY voted yes
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY voted yes
- James Abram Garfield R-OH voted yes
- Hiester Clymer D-PA voted yes
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA voted yes
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN voted yes
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted yes
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted yes
- John Hancock D-TX voted yes
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA voted yes
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted yes
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- William James Purman R-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- William Smith King R-MN
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
Other votes
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