House roll call 280 · 44th Congress · Feb 24, 1877
To recess the house and thereby terminating debate on the counting of electoral votes.
On Feb 24, 1877, the House voted 133–122. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 133–20, Republicans 0–97, Others 1–3, Independents 0–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 20 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
- 133
- No
- 122
- Did not vote
- 51
- Date
- Feb 24, 1877
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 97 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats133 yes · 20 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
- Levi Warner D-CT voted no
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL voted no
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL voted no
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN voted no
- Henry Watterson D-KY voted no
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
- Allen Potter D-MI voted no
- Erastus Wells D-MO voted no
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO voted no
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted no
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted no
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- Elijah Ward D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted no
- Scott Lord D-NY voted no
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY voted no
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH voted no
- Joseph Powell D-PA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- James Williams D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Finis Philips D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Rezin A. De Bolt D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- 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
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah Haralson R-AL
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-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
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-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
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Smith King R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY
- Charles Henry Adams R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Henry Harrison Hathorn R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Hays R-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- James Phelps D-CT
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William James Purman R-FL
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Frank Jones D-NH
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Robbins D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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