House roll call 2 · 51st Congress · Dec 2, 1889
To agree to that portion of the resolution electing house officers for this Congress which was amended by naming as chaplain william h. Milburn, of illinois, in
On Dec 2, 1889, the House voted 160–155. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 4–155, Democrats 156–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 51st Congress (1889–1890), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 160
- No
- 155
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Dec 2, 1889
By party
- Democrats156 yes · 0 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 155 no · 23 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC voted yes
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH voted yes
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Lind R-MN
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- William James Connell R-NE
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
Did not vote
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- James Laird R-NE
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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