House roll call 281 · 44th Congress · Feb 24, 1877
To read testimony on the house resolution regarding the counting of electoral votes in pennsylvania and resolving that the vote of henry a. Boggs be counted as
On Feb 24, 1877, the House voted 133–116. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 132–14, Republicans 0–97, Others 1–3, Independents 0–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 14 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
- 116
- Did not vote
- 59
- Date
- Feb 24, 1877
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 97 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats132 yes · 14 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR voted no
- James Phelps D-CT voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL voted no
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN voted no
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS voted no
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA voted no
- Allen Potter D-MI voted no
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted no
- Elijah Ward D-NY voted no
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX voted no
- John Hancock D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Adam Piper D-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- 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
- 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
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden 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
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher 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
- John Montgomery Glover 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
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss 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
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- 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
- Lawrence Talbot Neal 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
- John Robbins D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Joseph Powell 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
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- 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
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde 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
- Charles Hays R-AL
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- William James Purman R-FL
- 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
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-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
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- 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
- John Kemble Tarbox D-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
- 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
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Elijah Ward 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
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Madison Davy R-NY
- George Gilbert Hoskins R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- 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
- John Black Packer R-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
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- 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
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Henry Howard Starkweather R-CT
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Josiah Thomas Walls R-FL
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- William Smith King R-MN
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- William Almon Wheeler R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth R-NY
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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