The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY H.R. 207, A BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF LIEUT. KNIGHT WHO PAID GEN. WILKINSON $1,450 FOR RATIONS NEVER RECEIVED.
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
- 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).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
Every roll call on H.R. 207
How each state's members voted
In 1 state every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 every one voted no; 11 were 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: 1 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 5 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, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 6 yes, 8 no, 3 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 11 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 7 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: 1 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 13 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 7 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 2 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: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 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 0 yes, 7 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Crist (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Desha (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Lyon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Mentor Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel McKee (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Taylor Barry (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Massachusetts 6 yes, 8 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Abijah Bigelow (Federalist) — NAY
- Barzillai Gannett (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Pickman Jr. (Federalist) — NAY
- Charles Turner Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edward St. Loe Livermore (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Ezekiel Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Ezekiel Whitman (Federalist) — NAY
- Gideon Gardner (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Allen (Federalist) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — NAY
- Laban Wheaton (Federalist) — NAY
- Orchard Cook (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — NAY
- William Ely (Federalist) — NAY
Maryland 5 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander McKim (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Archibald van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NAY
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Montgomery (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Barton Key (Federalist) — NAY
- Robert Wright (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Ringgold (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 7 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald McBryde (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- James Cochran (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stanly (Federalist) — NAY
- Joseph Pearson (Federalist) — NAY
- Lemuel Sawyer (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Meshack Franklin (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Kenan (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Kennedy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 5 no
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 5 yes, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Barent Gardenier (Federalist) — NAY
- Ebenezer Sage (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Erastus Root (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Herman Knickerbocker (Federalist) — NAY
- James Emott (Federalist) — NAY
- John Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Jonathan Fisk (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NAY
- Peter Buell Porter (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Le Roy Livingston (Federalist) — NAY
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Ruggles Gold (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Vincent Mathews (Federalist) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 11 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Lyle (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Adam Seybert (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Porter (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Ross (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Matthias Richards (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Jenkins (Federalist) — NAY
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Crawford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Milnor (Federalist) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 1 no
Virginia 13 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Sheffey (Federalist) — NAY
- David Shepherd Garland (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Swoope (Federalist) — YEA
- James Breckinridge (Federalist) — NAY
- James Stephenson (Federalist) — NAY
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Love (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Roane (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — NAY
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Gholson Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Armisted Burwell (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William McKinley (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 142 members
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