House roll call 205 · 49th Congress · Dec 9, 1886
To amend an act to fix the day for the meeting of the electors of President and vice President and to provide for and regulate the counting of the votes for sam
On Dec 9, 1886, the House voted 141–109 (S 9). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 131–10, Republicans 8–99, Others 2–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 18 members voted against their own party.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 141
- No
- 109
- Did not vote
- 83
- Date
- Dec 9, 1886
By party
- Democrats131 yes · 10 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Republicans8 yes · 99 no · 36 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Neece D-IL voted no
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL voted no
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
- John Robert Thomas R-IL voted yes
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- John Davis Long R-MA voted yes
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA voted yes
- William Whiting R-MA voted yes
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI voted yes
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO voted no
- William Warner R-MO voted yes
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA voted yes
- William Wallace Brown R-PA voted yes
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- John Little R-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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