House roll call 92 · 51st Congress · Mar 11, 1890
To pass H.R. 417, (26 stat 32, 3-27-90), providing for the erection of a public building at houlton, me. (p. 330-2)
On Mar 11, 1890, the House voted 158–60 (HR 417). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 119–2, Democrats 39–58. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 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
- 158
- No
- 60
- Did not vote
- 132
- Date
- Mar 11, 1890
By party
- Democrats39 yes · 58 no · 70 didn’t vote
- Republicans119 yes · 2 no · 61 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL voted yes
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA voted yes
- John Brown Penington D-DE voted yes
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted yes
- Robert Bullock D-FL voted yes
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA voted yes
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted yes
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted yes
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA voted yes
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted yes
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA voted yes
- Andrew Price D-LA voted yes
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted yes
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA voted yes
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted yes
- Herman Stump D-MD voted yes
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD voted yes
- Barnes Compton D-MD voted yes
- John Logan Chipman D-MI voted yes
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO voted yes
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted yes
- Clarke Lewis D-MS voted yes
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted yes
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC voted yes
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC voted yes
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted yes
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted yes
- John McClure Wiley D-NY voted yes
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted yes
- James W. Owens D-OH voted yes
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted yes
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted yes
- Charles Stewart D-TX voted yes
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted yes
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted yes
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- 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
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell 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
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-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
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne 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
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman 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
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer 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
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- 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
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-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
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-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
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- James Kerr D-PA
- James Sproull Cothran 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
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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