The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THIRD READING OF THE SENATE BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT TO PERMIT THE DEPARTURE OF PAUL CUFFEE FROM THIS COUNTRY WITH A VESSEL AND CARGO FOR SIERRA LEONE IN AFRICA; AND TO RETURN WITH A CARGO.
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)
How each state's members voted
In 4 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 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: 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 6 yes, 0 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: 13 yes, 8 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 16 yes, 1 no, 2 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, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 20 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 7 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 5 yes, 12 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 0 yes, 4 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 7 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Moore Ridgely (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Cooper (Federalist) — YEA
Georgia 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 2 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- James Clark (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Desha (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Mentor Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Hopkins (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel McKee (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon P. Sharp (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Stephen Ormsby (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Montgomery (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Pope Duval (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 16 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abiel Wood (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Abijah Bigelow (Federalist) — YEA
- Artemas Ward Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
- Cyrus King (Federalist) — YEA
- Elijah Brigham (Federalist) — YEA
- George Bradbury (Federalist) — YEA
- James Parker (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Reed (Federalist) — YEA
- John Wilson (Federalist) — YEA
- Laban Wheaton (Federalist) — YEA
- Levi Hubbard (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Ruggles (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Davis (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — YEA
- Timothy Pickering (Federalist) — YEA
- William Baylies (Federalist) — YEA
- William Ely (Federalist) — YEA
- William Merchant Richardson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Reed (Federalist) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Contee Hanson (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander McKim (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Kent (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip Stuart (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Wright (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Ringgold (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Stevenson Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 2 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Bartlett Yancey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Israel Pickens (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Culpepper (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Pearson (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Meshack Franklin (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Forney (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Gaston (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Hardy Murfree (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Kennedy (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 6 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 13 yes, 8 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Alexander Boyd (Federalist) — YEA
- Daniel Avery (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Ebenezer Sage (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Elisha I. Winter (Federalist) — NAY
- Hosea Moffitt (Federalist) — YEA
- Isaac Williams Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Markell (Federalist) — YEA
- James Geddes (Federalist) — YEA
- Joel Thompson (Federalist) — YEA
- John Lefferts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Lovett (Federalist) — YEA
- John W. Taylor (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jonathan Fisk (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jotham Post Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
- Morris Smith Miller (Federalist) — YEA
- Moss Kent (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathaniel Woodhull Howell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Oliver Cromwell Comstock (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Denoyelles (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Miles Hopkins (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Sherwood (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Jackson Oakley (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Peabody Grosvenor (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Irving (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Stephens Smith (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Zebulon Rudd Shipherd (Federalist) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Caldwell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kilbourne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Alexander (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John McLean (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Reasin Beall (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Creighton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 20 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Lyle (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Adam Seybert (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Adamson Tannehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Charles Jared Ingersoll (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Udree (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edward Crouch (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Hugh Glasgow (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Griffin (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jared Irwin (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Conard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Roger Davis (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Delucenna Ingham (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Wilson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Crawford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Piper (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Elisha Reynolds Potter (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Jackson Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
South Carolina 1 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- David Reid Evans (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Joel Chappell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Kershaw (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Langdon Cheves (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Farrow (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Theodore Gourdin (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Lowndes (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 5 yes, 12 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Hawes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Sheffey (Federalist) — YEA
- Francis White (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Hugh Caperton (Federalist) — YEA
- Hugh Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Breckinridge (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- James Johnson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Pleasants (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Kerr (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Pratt Hungerford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Roane (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Gholson Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Monteagle Bayly (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Armisted Burwell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William McCoy (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Vermont 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 180 members
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