House roll call 305 · 49th Congress · Mar 3, 1887
To consider S. 763, providing for the erection of a public building at sioux city, iowa, to accomodate the U.S. District courts and appropriating the sum of $1
On Mar 3, 1887, the House voted 109–72 (S 763). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 21–72, Republicans 87–0, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 21 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
- 109
- No
- 72
- Did not vote
- 152
- Date
- Mar 3, 1887
By party
- Democrats21 yes · 72 no · 95 didn’t vote
- Republicans87 yes · 0 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA voted yes
- Jonas George Howard D-IN voted yes
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted yes
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN voted yes
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted yes
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA voted yes
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted yes
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI voted yes
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI voted yes
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted yes
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO voted yes
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC voted yes
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH voted yes
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted yes
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted yes
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted yes
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted yes
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-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
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- 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
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- John Little R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- James Scott Negley 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
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert 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
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass 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
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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