House roll call 162 · 48th Congress · Jul 2, 1884
To pass over the veto of the President H.R. 1015, a bill authorizing the President to appoint fitz-john porter to same grade and rank of colonel held by him whe
On Jul 2, 1884, the House voted 168–78 (HR 1015). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 153–0, Republicans 14–79, Others 4–2, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 members voted against their own party.
During the 48th Congress (1883–1884), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 168
- No
- 78
- Did not vote
- 86
- Date
- Jul 2, 1884
By party
- Democrats153 yes · 0 no · 48 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 79 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 2 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Burns Belford R-CO voted yes
- John Davis Long R-MA voted yes
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA voted yes
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA voted yes
- Elza Jeffords R-MS voted yes
- James Laird R-NE voted yes
- Ossian Ray R-NH voted yes
- John Kean R-NJ voted yes
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY voted yes
- George Washington Ray R-NY voted yes
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted yes
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted yes
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT voted yes
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
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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