House roll call 314 · 45th Congress · Feb 8, 1879
To amend H.R. 6145 by providing that no troops or armed men, led by any civil, military or naval personage, shall guard any special or general election except a
On Feb 8, 1879, the House voted 110–95 (HR 6145). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 122–0, Republicans 1–115, Others 2–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 110
- No
- 95
- Did not vote
- 62
- Date
- Feb 8, 1879
By party
- Democrats122 yes · 0 no · 36 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans1 yes · 115 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- 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
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell 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
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- Edwin William Keightley R-MI
- John Wesley Stone R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Frank Welch R-NE
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
Other votes
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