House roll call 84 · 44th Congress · May 8, 1876
To pass H.R. 612 (19 stat 200, 8/15/76), putting into effect a convention between the United States of america and his majesty, the king of the hawaiian islands
On May 8, 1876, the House voted 115–101 (HR 612). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 60–84, Republicans 61–25, Others 2–3, Independents 2–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 85 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
- 115
- No
- 101
- Did not vote
- 70
- Date
- May 8, 1876
By party
- Republicans61 yes · 25 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats60 yes · 84 no · 44 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 3 no
- Independents2 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR voted yes
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted yes
- William Wallace Wilshire D-AR voted yes
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR voted yes
- William Adam Piper D-CA voted yes
- John King Luttrell D-CA voted yes
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA voted yes
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL voted yes
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA voted yes
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA voted yes
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted no
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL voted no
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN voted no
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN voted yes
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted no
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted no
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY voted yes
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted yes
- Frank Morey R-LA voted no
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA voted yes
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA voted yes
- William Wirt Warren D-MA voted yes
- Chester William Chapin D-MA voted yes
- William James O'Brien D-MD voted yes
- Allen Potter D-MI voted yes
- William Brewster Williams R-MI voted no
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI voted no
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted no
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO voted yes
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO voted yes
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO voted yes
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS voted yes
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted yes
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted yes
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC voted yes
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted yes
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH voted yes
- Miles Ross D-NJ voted yes
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ voted yes
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ voted yes
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted yes
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY voted yes
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY voted yes
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted yes
- Elijah Ward D-NY voted yes
- Fernando Wood D-NY voted yes
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted yes
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY voted yes
- John Osborne Whitehouse D-NY voted yes
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Milton Sayler D-OH voted yes
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH voted yes
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH voted yes
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH voted yes
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH voted yes
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH voted yes
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH voted yes
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH voted no
- Henry B. Payne D-OH voted yes
- La Fayette Lane D-OR voted yes
- Chapman Freeman R-PA voted no
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
- John Robbins D-PA voted yes
- Washington Townsend R-PA voted no
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA voted no
- Joseph Powell D-PA voted yes
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA voted no
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC voted no
- Robert Smalls R-SC voted no
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN voted yes
- John Goode Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA voted yes
And 5 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jeremiah Haralson R-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
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- George Washington Mccrary R-IA
- John Quincy Tufts R-IA
- Lucien Lester Ainsworth D-IA
- Henry Otis Pratt R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Summerville Haymond D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Ripley Brown R-KS
- Thomas Laurens Jones D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Henry Lillie Pierce R-MA
- Rufus Smith Frost R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks I-MA
- Charles Perkins Thompson D-MA
- John Kemble Tarbox D-MA
- William Wirt Warren D-MA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Julius Hawley Seelye I-MA
- Chester William Chapin D-MA
- William James O'Brien D-MD
- John Holmes Burleigh R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Harris Merrill Plaisted R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Henry Waldron R-MI
- George Willard R-MI
- Allen Potter D-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Edward Charles Kehr D-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- John Adams Hyman R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Lorenzo Crounse R-NE
- Samuel Newell Bell D-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Robert Hamilton D-NJ
- Frederick Halstead Teese D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Henry Bleecker Metcalfe D-NY
- John Godfrey Schumaker D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden O-NY
- Edwin Ruthven Meade D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Elijah Ward D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Nathaniel Holmes Odell D-NY
- John Osborne Whitehouse 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
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- Elias Warner Leavenworth 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
- Lyman Kidder Bass R-NY
- Nelson Ira Norton R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- William Lawrence R-OH
- Ansel Tracy Walling D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Jacob Pitzer Cowan D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Henry B. Payne D-OH
- La Fayette Lane D-OR
- John Robbins D-PA
- John Black Packer R-PA
- Joseph Powell D-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Alexander Stuart Wallace R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- William Henry Harrison Stowell R-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison O-VT
- Henry Sterling Magoon R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard D-WI
- Alanson Mellen Kimball R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Taul Bradford D-AL
- John Henry Caldwell D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Burwell Boykin Lewis D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- James Williams D-DE
- 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
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Bernard Gregory Caulfield D-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- John Valcoulon Le Moyne D-IL
- Richard Henry Whiting R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- William Black Anderson I-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- James Douglas Williams D-IN
- Jeptha Dudley New D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Franklin Landers D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Cason R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Charles William Milliken D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Mallory Levy D-LA
- Frank Morey R-LA
- Philip Francis Thomas D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- William Brewster Williams R-MI
- George Harman Durand D-MI
- Nathan Ball Bradley R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Erastus Wells D-MO
- William Henry Stone D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan 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
- Guilford Wiley Wells O-MS
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Lawrence Talbot Neal D-OH
- Earley Franklin Poppleton D-OH
- John Luther Vance D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Washington Townsend R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Winthrop Welles Ketchum R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Alexander Gilmore Cochran D-PA
- John Winfield Wallace R-PA
- George Augustus Jenks D-PA
- James Sheakley D-PA
- Albert Gallatin Egbert D-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey O-SC
- Solomon Lafayette Hoge R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- William Mcfarland D-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- William Terry D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk R-WI
- Charles James Faulkner D-WV
Did not vote
- Charles Hays R-AL
- 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
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Alexander Campbell I-IL
- John Courts Bagby D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- Andrew Humphreys D-IN
- Michael Crawford Kerr D-IN
- Nathan Tracy Carr D-IN
- John Randolph Goodin D-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John Young Brown D-KY
- Edward Young Parsons D-KY
- Henry Watterson D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- William Brainerd Spencer D-LA
- Charles Edmund Nash R-LA
- James Buffinton R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Josiah Gardner Abbott D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Edwin Flye R-ME
- William Smith King R-MN
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Thomas Samuel Ashe D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- David Dudley Field D-NY
- Smith Ely Jr. D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Samuel Franklin Miller R-NY
- Scott Lord D-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Charles Christopher Brainerd Walker D-NY
- John Simpson Savage D-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- George Augustus La Dow D-OR
- Alan Wood Jr. R-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- William Henry Stanton D-PA
- Sobieski Ross R-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Charles Wilson Buttz R-SC
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Hancock D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Washington Cate D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To pass H.R. 612 (19 stat 200, 8/15/76)…: House Vote, May 8, 1876,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/44-H-84/to-pass-h-r-612-19-stat-200-8 (accessed 2026-10-17).