House roll call 71 · 51st Congress · Feb 24, 1890
To determine location of site for world's fair, votes for new york are coded 1, for chicago, 2, for ST. Louis, 5, for washington, 6.
On Feb 24, 1890, the House voted 92–34. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 144–16, Democrats 75–71. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 87 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
- 92
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 44
- Date
- Feb 24, 1890
By party
- Democrats75 yes · 71 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Republicans144 yes · 16 no · 22 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL voted no
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- James Edward Cobb D-AL voted no
- William Henderson Cate D-AR voted no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted no
- John David Stewart D-GA voted no
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted no
- Scott Wike D-IL voted no
- William St. John Forman D-IL voted no
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN voted no
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- William Johnson Stone D-KY voted no
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY voted no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY voted no
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY voted no
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY voted no
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA voted no
- Andrew Price D-LA voted no
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted no
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA voted no
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA voted no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA voted no
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted no
- Herman Stump D-MD voted no
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD voted no
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD voted no
- Barnes Compton D-MD voted no
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME voted no
- William Henry Hatch D-MO voted no
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO voted no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO voted no
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO voted no
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO voted no
- Nathan Frank R-MO voted no
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO voted no
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- William Joel Stone D-MO voted no
- William Henry Wade R-MO voted no
- James Peter Walker D-MO voted no
- James Bright Morgan D-MS voted no
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted no
- Clarke Lewis D-MS voted no
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS voted no
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS voted no
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC voted no
- John Morehead Brower R-NC voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA voted no
- James Kerr D-PA voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN voted no
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN voted no
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN voted no
- Charles Stewart D-TX voted no
- William Harrison Martin D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Silas Hare D-TX voted no
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX voted no
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA voted no
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA voted no
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted no
And 7 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-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
- Frank Lawler D-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
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-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
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-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
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-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
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Charles Henry Turner 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
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-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
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-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
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-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
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-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
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb 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
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Johnson Stone 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
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- 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
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- 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
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Posey Green Lester 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
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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