Senate roll call 320 · 45th Congress · Jun 17, 1878
To reconsider the vote consenting to the appointment of william m. Wood as lieutenant in the navy from december 11, 1877.
On Jun 17, 1878, the Senate voted 18–21. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 16–4, Republicans 2–17. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 6 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
- 18
- No
- 21
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Jun 17, 1878
By party
- Republicans2 yes · 17 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats16 yes · 4 no · 18 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted yes
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN voted no
- James Burnie Beck D-KY voted no
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI voted yes
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO voted no
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- William Henry Barnum D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Hipple Mitchell R-OR
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
Did not vote
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- Stanley Matthews R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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