Senate roll call 536 · 45th Congress · Feb 28, 1879
To amend H.R. 6471, by substituting the name of james shields of missouri for horace b. Strait, of minnesota in the appointment of manager of national home for
On Feb 28, 1879, the Senate voted 29–29 (HR 6471). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–29, Democrats 28–0, Independents 1–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 29
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- Feb 28, 1879
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 29 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Democrats28 yes · 0 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- 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
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- George Robertson Dennis D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Augustus Summerfield Merrimon D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- Stephen Wallace Dorsey R-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Richard James Oglesby R-IL
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- William Windom R-MN
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Bainbridge Wadleigh R-NH
- 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
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Timothy Otis Howe R-WI
Did not vote
- George Eliphaz Spencer R-AL
- Aaron Augustus Sargent R-CA
- Jerome Bunty Chaffee R-CO
- Simon Barclay Conover R-FL
- Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- Thomas Clay Mccreery D-KY
- James Biddle Eustis D-LA
- Isaac Peckham Christiancy R-MI
- David Hartley Armstrong D-MO
- James Shields D-MO
- Lewis Vital Bogy D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- John Sherman R-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- Simon Cameron R-PA
- John James Patterson R-SC
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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