Senate roll call 636 · 47th Congress · Dec 27, 1882
To amend S. 133 by excluding heads of departments and officers as are elected by the people or the legislatures of the states from contributing for partisan pur
On Dec 27, 1882, the Senate voted 12–28 (S 133). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–27, Democrats 14–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 2 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
- 12
- No
- 28
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Dec 27, 1882
By party
- Democrats14 yes · 2 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 27 no · 16 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL voted no
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Augustus Hill Garland D-AR
- James David Walker D-AR
- Wilkinson Call D-FL
- Joseph Emerson Brown D-GA
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Jonas D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- George Graham Vest D-MO
- James Zachariah George D-MS
- Zebulon Baird Vance D-NC
- John Rhoderic Mcpherson D-NJ
- James Harvey Slater D-OR
- Howell Edmunds Jackson D-TN
- Richard Coke D-TX
How each senator voted: No
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- John Franklin Miller R-CA
- George Miles Chilcott R-CO
- Nathaniel Peter Hill R-CO
- Joseph Roswell Hawley R-CT
- Orville Hitchcock Platt R-CT
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. D-DE
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- John Alexander Logan R-IL
- Benjamin Harrison R-IN
- Preston B. Plumb R-KS
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- George Frisbie Hoar R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- William Windom R-MN
- Charles Henry Van Wyck R-NE
- Edward Henry Rollins R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- William Joyce Sewell R-NJ
- John Percival Jones R-NV
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Warner Miller R-NY
- John Sherman R-OH
- James Donald Cameron R-PA
- Henry Bowen Anthony R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- George Franklin Edmunds R-VT
- Angus Cameron R-WI
Did not vote
- James Lawrence Pugh D-AL
- James Thompson Farley D-CA
- Henry Moore Teller R-CO
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor R-CO
- Eli Saulsbury D-DE
- Charles William Jones D-FL
- Benjamin Harvey Hill D-GA
- Middleton Pope Barrow D-GA
- James Wilson Mcdill R-IA
- David Davis I-IL
- John James Ingalls R-KS
- James Burnie Beck D-KY
- John Stuart Williams D-KY
- Henry Laurens Dawes R-MA
- James Black Groome D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Thomas White Ferry R-MI
- Alonzo Jay Edgerton R-MN
- Samuel James Renwick Mcmillan R-MN
- Francis Marion Cockrell D-MO
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar D-MS
- Matt Whitaker Ransom D-NC
- Alvin Saunders R-NE
- James Graham Fair D-NV
- Roscoe Conkling R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- George Hunt Pendleton D-OH
- La Fayette Grover D-OR
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Ambrose Everett Burnside R-RI
- Matthew Calbraith Butler D-SC
- Wade Hampton D-SC
- Isham Green Harris D-TN
- Samuel Bell Maxey D-TX
- John Warfield Johnston D-VA
- William Mahone O-VA
- Justin Smith Morrill R-VT
- Philetus Sawyer R-WI
- Henry Gassaway Davis D-WV
- Johnson Newlon Camden D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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