Senate roll call 51 · 47th Congress · Mar 28, 1881
To amend the resolution providing for the election of officers of the Senate, by stipulating that when they adjourn today, they will do so until 10 o'clock tomo
On Mar 28, 1881, the Senate voted 14–25. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–26, Democrats 15–0, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), James A. Garfield was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 14
- No
- 25
- Did not vote
- 41
- Date
- Mar 28, 1881
By party
- Democrats15 yes · 0 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 26 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each senator voted: Yes
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- James Black Groome D-MD
- William Windom R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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