House roll call 202 · 44th Congress · Aug 15, 1876
To pass S. 779, providing for the sale of the reservation of the confederated otoe and missouri indians, in the states of kansas and nebraska, over the presiden
On Aug 15, 1876, the House voted 120–18 (S 779). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 80–15, Republicans 36–3, Others 3–0, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 18 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
- 120
- No
- 18
- Did not vote
- 170
- Date
- Aug 15, 1876
By party
- Republicans36 yes · 3 no · 72 didn’t vote
- Democrats80 yes · 15 no · 93 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL voted no
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
- William Hartzell D-IL voted no
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted no
- John Blades Clarke D-KY voted no
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA voted no
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA voted no
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted no
- James Monroe R-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- John Morgan Bright D-TN voted no
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI voted no
- Frank Hereford D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Philip Cook 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
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- George Washington Cate D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- James Monroe R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- William Smith King R-MN
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- George Augustus Jenks 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
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-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
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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