Senate roll call 236 · 45th Congress · May 20, 1878
To amend H.R. 4245, by enabling the President to appoint gen. Grant to the retired list with full pay.
On May 20, 1878, the Senate voted 30–28 (HR 4245). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 30–1, Democrats 1–28, Independents 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 2 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
- 30
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- May 20, 1878
By party
- Republicans30 yes · 1 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats1 yes · 28 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL voted no
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- John James Patterson R-SC
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- John Sherman R-OH
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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