House roll call 3 · 56th Congress · Dec 5, 1899
To adopt H. RES. 1, providing that the question of the eligibility of brigham h. Roberts as a representative elect from utah to a seat in the house be referred
On Dec 5, 1899, the House voted 304–32 (HRE 1). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 182–1, Democrats 118–30, Others 7–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 31 members voted against their own party.
During the 56th Congress (1899–1900), William McKinley was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 304
- No
- 32
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Dec 5, 1899
By party
- Democrats118 yes · 30 no · 18 didn’t vote
- Republicans182 yes · 1 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Others7 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Gaston Ahi Robbins D-AL voted no
- Willis Brewer D-AL voted no
- Philip Doddridge Mcculloch Jr. D-AR voted no
- Hugh Anderson Dinsmore D-AR voted no
- Eugene Francis Loud R-CA voted no
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA voted no
- Elijah Banks Lewis D-GA voted no
- William Charles Adamson D-GA voted no
- John W. Maddox D-GA voted no
- William Henry Fleming D-GA voted no
- Henry Dixon Allen D-KY voted no
- John Stockdale Rhea D-KY voted no
- Oscar Turner D-KY voted no
- Thomas Young Fitzpatrick D-KY voted no
- Adolph Meyer D-LA voted no
- Robert Charles Davey D-LA voted no
- John Mills Allen D-MS voted no
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted no
- William Walton Kitchin D-NC voted no
- George Brinton Mcclellan D-NY voted no
- James Norton D-SC voted no
- Charles Edward Snodgrass D-TN voted no
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN voted no
- Edward Ward Carmack D-TN voted no
- Thomas Henry Ball D-TX voted no
- Samuel Bronson Cooper D-TX voted no
- Reese Calhoun De Graffenreid D-TX voted no
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX voted no
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX voted no
- James Luther Slayden D-TX voted no
- John Hall Stephens D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- John Sebastian Little D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- William Leake Terry D-AR
- Stephen Brundidge Jr. D-AR
- John All Barham R-CA
- Marion De Vries D-CA
- Victor Howard Metcalf R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Russell Judson Waters R-CA
- James Carson Needham R-CA
- John Franklin Shafroth O-CO
- John Calhoun Bell O-CO
- Edward Stevens Henry R-CT
- Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- John Henry Hoffecker R-DE
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Robert Wyche Davis D-FL
- James Mathews Griggs D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- Farish Carter Tate D-GA
- William Gordon Brantley D-GA
- Thomas Hedge R-IA
- Joseph Reed Lane R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Robert Gordon Cousins R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Smith Mcpherson R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Lot Thomas R-IA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William Lorimer R-IL
- George Peter Foster D-IL
- Thomas Cusack D-IL
- Edward Thomas Noonan D-IL
- Henry Sherman Boutell R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- George Washington Prince R-IL
- Walter Reeves R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Vespasian Warner R-IL
- Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Ben Franklin Caldwell D-IL
- Thomas Marion Jett D-IL
- Joseph Burns Crowley D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- James Alexander Hemenway R-IN
- Robert Walter Miers D-IN
- William Taylor Zenor D-IN
- Francis Marion Griffith D-IN
- George Washington Faris R-IN
- James Eli Watson R-IN
- Jesse Overstreet R-IN
- George Washington Cromer R-IN
- Charles Beary Landis R-IN
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James McClellan Robinson D-IN
- Abraham Lincoln Brick R-IN
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- Justin De Witt Bowersock R-KS
- Edwin Reed Ridgely O-KS
- James Monroe Miller R-KS
- William Alexander Calderhead R-KS
- William Augustus Reeder R-KS
- Chester Isaiah Long R-KS
- Willis Joshua Bailey R-KS
- Charles Kennedy Wheeler D-KY
- David Highbaugh Smith D-KY
- Albert Seaton Berry D-KY
- George Gilmore Gilbert D-KY
- Samuel Johnson Pugh R-KY
- Vincent Boreing R-KY
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- Phanor Breazeale D-LA
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- George Pelton Lawrence R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- John Randolph Thayer D-MA
- George Warren Weymouth R-MA
- William Shadrach Knox R-MA
- William Henry Moody R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- Samuel Walker Mccall R-MA
- John Francis Fitzgerald D-MA
- Henry Francis Naphen D-MA
- Charles Franklin Sprague R-MA
- William Croad Lovering R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- William Benjamin Baker R-MD
- Frank Charles Wachter R-MD
- James William Denny D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- George Alexander Pearre R-MD
- Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME
- Charles Edgar Littlefield R-ME
- Edwin Chick Burleigh R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Blaisdell Corliss R-MI
- Henry Cassorte Smith R-MI
- Washington Gardner R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- William Alden Smith R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Edgar Weeks R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- Roswell Peter Bishop R-MI
- Rousseau Owen Crump R-MI
- William Smith Mesick R-MI
- Carlos Douglas Shelden R-MI
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN
- James Thompson Mccleary R-MN
- Joel Prescott Heatwole R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Loren Fletcher R-MN
- Robert Page Walter Morris R-MN
- Frank Marion Eddy R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- John Dougherty D-MO
- Charles Fremont Cochran D-MO
- William Strother Cowherd D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- James Cooney D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Charles Frederick Joy R-MO
- Charles Edward Pearce R-MO
- Edward Robb D-MO
- Willard Duncan Vandiver D-MO
- Maecenas Eason Benton D-MO
- Thomas Spight D-MS
- Andrew Fuller Fox D-MS
- John Sharp Williams D-MS
- Frank Alexander Mclain D-MS
- Patrick Henry D-MS
- George Henry White R-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas D-NC
- John Wilbur Atwater O-NC
- John Dillard Bellamy D-NC
- Theodore Franklin Kluttz D-NC
- Romulus Zachariah Linney R-NC
- William Thomas Crawford D-NC
- Burleigh Folsom Spalding R-ND
- Elmer Jacob Burkett R-NE
- David Henry Mercer R-NE
- John Seaton Robinson D-NE
- William Ledyard Stark O-NE
- Roderick Dhu Sutherland O-NE
- William Neville O-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Frank Gay Clarke R-NH
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ
- John James Gardner R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howell R-NJ
- Joshua S. Salmon D-NJ
- James Fleming Stewart R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- William Davis Daly D-NJ
- Charles Newell Fowler R-NJ
- Townsend Scudder D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Edmund Hope Driggs D-NY
- Bertram Tracy Clayton D-NY
- Frank Eugene Wilson D-NY
- Mitchell May D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- William Sulzer D-NY
- William Astor Chanler D-NY
- Jacob Ruppert Jr. D-NY
- John Quincy Underhill D-NY
- Arthur Sidney Tompkins R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane R-NY
- Martin Henry Glynn D-NY
- John Knox Stewart R-NY
- Lucius Nathan Littauer R-NY
- Louis Woodard Emerson R-NY
- Charles Addison Chickering R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- James Mary Early O'Grady R-NY
- William Henry Ryan D-NY
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander R-NY
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY
- William Bunn Shattuc R-OH
- Jacob Henry Bromwell R-OH
- John Lewis Brenner D-OH
- Robert Bryarly Gordon D-OH
- David Meekison D-OH
- Seth W. Brown R-OH
- Walter Lowrie Weaver R-OH
- Archibald Lybrand R-OH
- James Harding Southard R-OH
- Stephen Morgan R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- John Jacob Lentz D-OH
- James Albert Norton D-OH
- Winfield Scott Kerr R-OH
- Henry Clay Van Voorhis R-OH
- Joseph John Gill R-OH
- John Anderson Mcdowell D-OH
- Robert Walker Tayler R-OH
- Charles William Frederick Dick R-OH
- Fremont Orestes Phillips R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Thomas H. Tongue R-OR
- Malcolm Adelbert Moody R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Robert Adams Jr. R-PA
- James Rankin Young R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Irving Price Wanger R-PA
- Laird Howard Barber D-PA
- Henry Dickinson Green D-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- William Connell R-PA
- Stanley Woodward Davenport D-PA
- James Wilfrid Ryan D-PA
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA
- Charles Frederick Wright R-PA
- Horace Billings Packer R-PA
- Rufus King Polk D-PA
- Thaddeus Maclay Mahon R-PA
- Edward Danner Ziegler D-PA
- Joseph Earlston Thropp R-PA
- Summers Melville Jack R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- William Harrison Graham R-PA
- Ernest Francis Acheson R-PA
- Joseph Baltzell Showalter R-PA
- Joseph Crocker Sibley D-PA
- James Knox Polk Hall D-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- Samuel Arza Davenport R-PA
- Melville Bull R-RI
- Adin Ballou Capron R-RI
- William Elliott D-SC
- William Jasper Talbert D-SC
- Asbury Churchwell Latimer D-SC
- Stanyarne Wilson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- James William Stokes D-SC
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN
- Henry Richard Gibson R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- John Wesley Gaines D-TN
- Nicholas Nichols Cox D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- John Levi Sheppard D-TX
- Robert Emmet Burke D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Robert Bradley Hawley R-TX
- Rudolph Kleberg D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- William Albin Young D-VA
- John Lamb D-VA
- Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA
- Peter Johnston Otey D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- John Franklin Rixey D-VA
- William Francis Rhea D-VA
- Julian Minor Quarles D-VA
- Horace Henry Powers R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA
- Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Herman Bjorn Dahle R-WI
- Joseph Weeks Babcock R-WI
- Theobald Otjen R-WI
- Samuel Stebbins Barney R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Sloman Minor R-WI
- Alexander Stewart R-WI
- John James Jenkins R-WI
- Blackburn Barrett Dovener R-WV
- Alston Gordon Dayton R-WV
- David Emmons Johnston D-WV
- Romeo Hoyt Freer R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Gaston Ahi Robbins D-AL
- Willis Brewer D-AL
- Philip Doddridge Mcculloch Jr. D-AR
- Hugh Anderson Dinsmore D-AR
- Eugene Francis Loud R-CA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Elijah Banks Lewis D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- John W. Maddox D-GA
- William Henry Fleming D-GA
- Henry Dixon Allen D-KY
- John Stockdale Rhea D-KY
- Oscar Turner D-KY
- Thomas Young Fitzpatrick D-KY
- Adolph Meyer D-LA
- Robert Charles Davey D-LA
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- William Walton Kitchin D-NC
- Francis Griffith Newlands O-NV
- George Brinton Mcclellan D-NY
- James Norton D-SC
- Charles Edward Snodgrass D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Edward Ward Carmack D-TN
- Thomas Henry Ball D-TX
- Samuel Bronson Cooper D-TX
- Reese Calhoun De Graffenreid D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
Did not vote
- Jesse Francis Stallings D-AL
- William Farrington Aldrich R-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- Samuel Davis Woods R-CA
- Walter Oakley Hoffecker R-DE
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- William Marcellus Howard D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA
- James Perry Conner R-IA
- Edgar Wilson O-ID
- June Ward Gayle D-KY
- John Walter Smith D-MD
- Josiah Leeds Kerr R-MD
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Albert James Campbell D-MT
- Richmond Pearson R-NC
- Allan Langdon Mcdermott D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Bradley D-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Albert Duane Shaw R-NY
- Charles William Gillet R-NY
- William Mcaleer D-PA
- Edward de Veaux Morrell R-PA
- Athelston Gaston D-PA
- William Henry King D-UT
- Richard Alsop Wise R-VA
- Francis Rives Lassiter D-VA
- Sydney Parham Epes D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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