Senate roll call 200 · 46th Congress · Jan 12, 1880
To adjourn and thereby prevent action in an appointment.
On Jan 12, 1880, the Senate voted 11–29. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 5–20, Republicans 5–9, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 46th Congress (1879–1880), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 11
- No
- 29
- Did not vote
- 41
- Date
- Jan 12, 1880
By party
- Democrats5 yes · 20 no · 20 didn’t vote
- Republicans5 yes · 9 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO voted yes
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA voted yes
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted yes
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted yes
- Henry William Blair R-NH voted yes
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH voted yes
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI voted yes
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC voted yes
- Isham Green Harris D-TN voted yes
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- Frank Hereford D-WV
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Blanche Kelso Bruce R-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- William Sharon R-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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