House roll call 48 · 49th Congress · Apr 14, 1886
To pass a minority resolution that jacob romeis was not elected a member of the House Of Representatives of the 49th Congress from the tenth congressional distr
On Apr 14, 1886, the House voted 105–168. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 104–53, Republicans 3–118, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 56 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
- 105
- No
- 168
- Did not vote
- 54
- Date
- Apr 14, 1886
By party
- Democrats104 yes · 53 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 118 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Barclay Henley D-CA voted no
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT voted no
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA voted no
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA voted no
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted no
- James Hugh Ward D-IL voted no
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL voted no
- William Henry Neece D-IL voted no
- James Milton Riggs D-IL voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Robert Lowry D-IN voted no
- George Ford D-IN voted no
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY voted no
- Louis St. Martin D-LA voted no
- Edward James Gay D-LA voted no
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted no
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA voted no
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted no
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD voted no
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted no
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted no
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO voted no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- James Bright Morgan D-MS voted no
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY voted no
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY voted yes
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY voted no
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY voted yes
- William Craig Cooper R-OH voted yes
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted no
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- John Augustus Swope D-PA voted no
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- George William Dargan D-SC voted no
- John Randolph Neal D-TN voted no
- Charles Stewart D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Edward Halsell 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
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- 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
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-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
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson 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 Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- George Everett Adams 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
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- George Ford D-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
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-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
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- John Little R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White 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
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-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
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Other votes
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