House roll call 362 · 45th Congress · Mar 1, 1879
To proceed to consideration of the resolutions impeaching george f. Seward, former consul-general and now minister to china, for misdemeanors and high crimes in
On Mar 1, 1879, the House voted 109–126. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 109–13, Republicans 1–116, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 members 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
- 109
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 61
- Date
- Mar 1, 1879
By party
- Democrats109 yes · 13 no · 36 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans1 yes · 116 no · 25 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL voted no
- John King Luttrell D-CA voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted no
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted yes
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- William Henry Forney 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
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Carter Henry Harrison 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
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott 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 Barton Elam D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood 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
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell 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
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- 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
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- 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
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Edwin William Keightley R-MI
- John Wesley Stone R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger 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
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Andrew Williams 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
- William Henry Baker 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
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Russell Errett 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
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- 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
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
Did not vote
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
Other votes
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