The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.R. 204, A BILL SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE ACT FOR ARMING AND CLASSING THE WHOLE BODY OF THE MILITIA.
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. 204
How each state's members voted
In 8 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 8 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: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 no, 3 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: 3 yes, 9 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 11 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 7 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 13 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 6 yes, 1 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: 3 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 11 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 3 yes, 0 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 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 3 yes, 11 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Abijah Bigelow (Federalist) — NAY
- Charles Turner Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Brigham (Federalist) — NAY
- Ezekiel Bacon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Francis Carr (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Isaiah Lewis Green (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — NAY
- Laban Wheaton (Federalist) — NAY
- Leonard White (Federalist) — NAY
- Peleg Tallman (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — NAY
- William Ely (Federalist) — NAY
- William Merchant Richardson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Reed (Federalist) — NAY
- William Widgery (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 6 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander McKim (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NAY
- Joseph Kent (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peter Little (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Barton Key (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Stuart (Federalist) — YEA
- Robert Wright (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Ringgold (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Stevenson Archer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 11 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald McBryde (Federalist) — YEA
- Israel Pickens (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Cochran (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Pearson (Federalist) — YEA
- Lemuel Sawyer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Meshack Franklin (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Kennedy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- George Sullivan (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Adams Harper (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Bartlett Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Obed Hall (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Dinsmoor (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
New York 3 yes, 9 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Arunah Metcalf (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Asa Fitch (Federalist) — NAY
- Benjamin Pond (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Avery (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ebenezer Sage (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Harmanus Bleecker (Federalist) — NAY
- James Emott (Federalist) — NAY
- Peter Buell Porter (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Pierre van Cortlandt Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Stow (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Burrage Cooke (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Peabody Grosvenor (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Ruggles Gold (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Paulding Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 7 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Lyle (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Abner Lacock (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Adam Seybert (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Milnor (Federalist) — NAY
- John M. Hyneman (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jonathan Roberts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Lefever (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roger Davis (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Crawford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Piper (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Rodman (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rogerson Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Langdon Cheves (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Lowndes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Tennessee 3 yes, 0 no
Virginia 13 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Hawes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Sheffey (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Hugh Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Breckinridge (Federalist) — YEA
- James Pleasants (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Baker (Federalist) — YEA
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Roane (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Taliaferro (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Gholson Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Wilson (Federalist) — YEA
- William Armisted Burwell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William McCoy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 143 members
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