House roll call 37 · 47th Congress · Feb 17, 1882
To amend H.R. 3550, by providing that after march 3, there will be 319 representatives and that the representatives from new states shall be added to that numbe
On Feb 17, 1882, the House voted 99–149 (HR 3550). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–125, Democrats 96–16, Others 3–7, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 16 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
- 99
- No
- 149
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Feb 17, 1882
By party
- Democrats96 yes · 16 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 7 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 125 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA voted no
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS voted no
- Clement Dowd D-NC voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- John Smythe Richardson D-SC voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Olin Wellborn D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX voted no
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler 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
- 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
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton 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
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Elijah Conner Phister D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD
- George Washington Ladd O-ME
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- John Williams Shackelford D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales 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
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- John Peter Leedom D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Gibson Atherton 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
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Morgan Ringland Wise D-PA
- James Mosgrove O-PA
- 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
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Abram Fulkerson O-VA
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Blair Hoge D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- William George Thompson 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
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- 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
- William Augustus Russell 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
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine O-MO
- Theron Moses Rice O-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Nicholas Ford O-MO
- Joseph Henry Burrows O-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Orlando Hubbs R-NC
- Clement Dowd D-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
- John Hyatt Smith I-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Walter Abbott Wood R-NY
- John Hammond R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker 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
- Richard Crowley 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
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- 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
- John Smythe Richardson D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- William Robert Moore R-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
- John Frederick Dezendorf R-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- John Paul 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
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Thomas Hord Herndon D-AL
- William Manning Lowe O-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Emory Speer O-GA
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Marsena Edgar Cutts R-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- James Washington Singleton D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Charles Taylor Doxey R-IN
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD
- Milton George Urner R-MD
- Thompson Henry Murch O-ME
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- James Henry Mclean R-MO
- Thomas Allen D-MO
- Gustavus Sessinghaus R-MO
- Richard Graham Frost D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Benjamin Wood D-NY
- Philip Henry Dugro D-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- Michael Nicholas Nolan D-NY
- George West R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Van Voorhis R-NY
- Jonathan Scoville D-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Rufus Dawes R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Addison S. Mcclure R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Godshalk R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Horatio Gates Fisher R-PA
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
Other votes
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