The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
House recorded vote (1st Congress) · May 22, 1789
Recorded vote
TO PASS THE RESOLUTION THAT IT APPEARS TO THIS HOUSE, THAT THE SAID WILLIAM SMITH HAD BEEN SEVEN YEARS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE TIME OF HIS ELECTION, AND THEREFORE ENTITLED TO HIS SEAT.
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The tally
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
The people
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
The official record
- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
The tally
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
The map
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 1 was split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: no member on this roll call
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: no member on this roll call
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Baldwin (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- George Mathews (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Jackson (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 3 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Goodhue (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Elbridge Gerry (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Fisher Ames (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Leonard (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- George Partridge (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Thacher (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Jonathan Grout (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Theodore Sedgwick (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Hugh Williamson (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Baptista Ashe (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Sevier (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Steele (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Bloodworth (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Jersey 4 yes, 0 no
New York 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Pennsylvania 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Hiester (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Clymer (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Henry Wynkoop (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Fitzsimons (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Scott (Pro-Administration) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Bourne (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Aedanus Burke (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Huger (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sumter (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Tudor Tucker (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Loughton Smith (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander White (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Andrew Moore (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Isaac Coles (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- James Madison Jr. (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Brown (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Page (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Josiah Parker (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Bland Lee (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Griffin (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Theodorick Bland (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Official records
Every vote, by name — 66 members
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