Senate roll call 422 · 46th Congress · Dec 21, 1880
To advise and consent to the appointment of william b. Woods as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court.
On Dec 21, 1880, the Senate voted 39–8. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 24–0, Democrats 14–8, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 8 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
- 39
- No
- 8
- Did not vote
- 34
- Date
- Dec 21, 1880
By party
- Democrats14 yes · 8 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 0 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE voted no
- Wilkinson Call D-FL voted no
- John Stuart Williams D-KY voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA voted no
- George Graham Vest D-MO voted no
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- Newton Booth R-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Samuel Jordan Kirkwood R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Joseph Ewing Mcdonald D-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Gillespie Blaine R-ME
- 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
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Francis Kernan D-NY
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
Did not vote
- George Smith Houston D-AL
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- John Brown Gordon D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- Hannibal Hamlin R-ME
- Henry Porter Baldwin R-MI
- Zachariah Chandler R-MI
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Algernon Sidney Paddock R-NE
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Bell R-NH
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- Theodore Fitz Randolph D-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- William Sharon R-NV
- Allen Granberry Thurman D-OH
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- William Andrew Wallace D-PA
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- James Edmund Bailey D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- Robert Enoch Withers D-VA
- Matthew Hale Carpenter R-WI
- Frank Hereford D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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