House roll call 33 · 47th Congress · Feb 16, 1882
To amend H.R. 3550, by making it unlawful to divide a parish or county in the formation of a new district in order to bring said district up to ratio of inhabit
On Feb 16, 1882, the House voted 116–135 (HR 3550). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–127, Democrats 108–3, Others 6–5. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 5 members voted against their own party.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 116
- No
- 135
- Did not vote
- 54
- Date
- Feb 16, 1882
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 3 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 5 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 127 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- Milton George Urner R-MD voted yes
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted yes
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Thomas Hord Herndon D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Campbell Polson Berry D-CA
- James Phelps D-CT
- Edward Livingston Martin D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- George Robison Black D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Emory Speer O-GA
- James Washington Singleton D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick D-IN
- Oscar Turner D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Elijah Conner Phister D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD
- Milton George Urner R-MD
- George Washington Ladd O-ME
- Thompson Henry Murch O-ME
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine O-MO
- Theron Moses Rice O-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- John Williams Shackelford D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Robert Franklin Armfield D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Henry Schenck Harris D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Philip Henry Dugro D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Jonathan Scoville D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- John Peter Leedom D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Robert Klotz D-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- John Smythe Richardson D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Washington Jones O-TX
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Blair Hoge D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell R-IA
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- John Crocker Sherwin R-IL
- Robert Moffett Allison Hawk R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- John Henry Lewis R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Dietrich Conrad Smith R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- William Heilman R-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Mark Lindsey De Motte R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Selwyn Zadock Bowman R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Henry William Lord R-MI
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- George Washington Webber R-MI
- Oliver Lyman Spaulding R-MI
- John Tyler Rich R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Nicholas Ford O-MO
- Joseph Henry Burrows O-MO
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Orlando Hubbs R-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Joshua Gilman Hall R-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- George Maxwell Robeson R-NJ
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- Phineas Jones R-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- John Hammond R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Ferris Jacobs Jr. R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Cyrus Dan Prescott R-NY
- Joseph Mason R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- David Plunket Richardson R-NY
- Henry Van Aernam R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Thomas Lowry Young R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Emanuel Shultz R-OH
- James Monroe Ritchie R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- John Birchard Rice R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Rufus Dawes R-OH
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Addison S. Mcclure R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- Cornelius Comegys Jadwin R-PA
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- William Robert Moore R-TN
- John Frederick Dezendorf R-VA
- John Paul O-VA
- Abram Fulkerson O-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- James Manning Tyler R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Manning Lowe O-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- William George Thompson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Marsena Edgar Cutts R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Charles Taylor Doxey R-IN
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- James Henry Mclean R-MO
- Thomas Allen D-MO
- Gustavus Sessinghaus R-MO
- Richard Graham Frost D-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- John Hyatt Smith I-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Benjamin Wood D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- Michael Nicholas Nolan D-NY
- Walter Abbott Wood R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Van Voorhis R-NY
- Richard Crowley R-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Gibson Atherton D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Godshalk R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Horatio Gates Fisher R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Morgan Ringland Wise D-PA
- James Mosgrove O-PA
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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