The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY CONSIDERATION OF THE COMMUNICATION FROM THE SPEAKER.
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 2 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 16 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: 1 yes, 6 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 4 no
- New Hampshire: 1 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 14 yes, 19 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 12 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: 0 yes, 3 no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 11 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 19 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 5 no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 4 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 11 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 9 yes, 12 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 8 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: 6 yes, 3 no
- North Carolina: 5 yes, 8 no
- South Carolina: 6 yes, 3 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 2 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 3 yes, 2 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.
Alabama 3 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 4 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no
Indiana 0 yes, 3 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 11 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Anderson Wickliffe (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- David Trimble (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- David White (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Francis Johnson (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Henry Clay (Adams-Clay Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Telemachus Johnson (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Philip Thompson (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Richard Aylett Buckner (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Robert Perkins Letcher (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Robert Pryor Henry (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Metcalfe (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Patrick Moore (Jackson Republican) — NAY
Louisiana 1 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 1 yes, 12 no
- Aaron Hobart (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Webster (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Francis Baylies (Jackson Federalist) — YEA
- Henry Williams Dwight (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Jeremiah Nelson (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- John Bailey (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Locke (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Reed (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Jonas Sibley (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Clesson Allen (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Samuel Lathrop (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Timothy Fuller (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
Maryland 1 yes, 8 no
- George Edward Mitchell (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Henry Ridgely Warfield (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Isaac McKim (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- John Lee (Jackson Federalist) — NAY
- John Selby Spence (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Kent (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Peter Little (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Raphael Neale (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- William Hayward Jr. (Crawford Republican) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 6 no
- David Kidder (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Ebenezer Herrick (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Enoch Lincoln (Adams-Clay Republican) — YEA
- Jeremiah O'Brien (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Joshua Cushman (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Stephen Longfellow (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- William Burleigh (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
Missouri 0 yes, 1 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 5 yes, 8 no
- Alfred Moore Gatlin (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Charles Hooks (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- George Outlaw (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Henry William Connor (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- John Culpepper (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- John Long (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Lewis Williams (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Richard Dobbs Spaight Jr. (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brank Vance (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Thomas H. Hall (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Willie Person Mangum (Crawford Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 1 yes, 5 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 5 no
New York 14 yes, 19 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Haller Tracy (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Charles Augustus Foote (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Dudley Marvin (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Egbert ten Eyck (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Ela Collins (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Elisha Litchfield (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Hector Craig (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Henry Clinton Martindale (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Henry Randolph Storrs (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Isaac Williams Jr. (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Tyson (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- James Lawrence Hogeboom (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- James Strong (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Joel Frost (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- John Herkimer (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Jordan Morgan (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Richards (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- John W. Taylor (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Watts Cady (Adams-Clay Republican) — YEA
- Justin Dwinell (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Lemuel Jenkins (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Lewis Eaton (Crawford Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lot Clark (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Moses Hayden (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Parmenio Adams (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Peter Sharpe (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Robert Selden Rose (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Rowland Day (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Lawrence (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Silas Wood (Adams-Clay Republican) — YEA
- Stephen van Rensselaer III (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- William William van Wyck (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- William Woods (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
Ohio 2 yes, 11 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Duncan McArthur (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Elisha Whittlesey (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- James William Gazlay (Jackson Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Crafts Wright (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Patterson (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Sloane (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- John Wilson Campbell (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Vance (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Mordecai Bartley (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Philemon Beecher (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Finley Vinton (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Randolph Ross (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- William McLean (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- William Wilson (Crawford Republican) — YEA
Pennsylvania 19 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Thomson (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Stewart (Jackson Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel H. Miller (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Udree (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- George Kremer (Jackson Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Plumer (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- George Wolf (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Henry Wilson (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Wayne (Jackson Federalist) — YEA
- James Allison Jr. (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- James Buchanan (Jackson Federalist) — YEA
- James S. Mitchell (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- James Wilson (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Brown (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Findlay (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hemphill (Jackson Federalist) — NAY
- Patrick Farrelly (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Philip Swenk Markley (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Robert Harris (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Breck (Adams-Clay Federalist) — NAY
- Samuel Delucenna Ingham (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Edwards (Jackson Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel McKean (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Patterson (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Walter Forward (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- William Cox Ellis (Jackson Federalist) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 6 yes, 3 no
- Andrew Robison Govan (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- George McDuffie (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- James Hamilton Jr. (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Joel Roberts Poinsett (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Carter (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Wilson (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Gist (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Robert Blair Campbell (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Starling Tucker (Jackson Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 6 yes, 3 no
- Adam Rankin Alexander (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Jacob C. Isacks (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- James B. Reynolds (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- James Israel Standifer (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- James T. Sandford (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Blair (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- John Cocke (Jackson Republican) — NAY
- Robert Allen (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Houston (Jackson Republican) — YEA
Virginia 9 yes, 12 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Smyth (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Stevenson (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Arthur Smith (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Burwell Bassett (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Charles Fenton Mercer (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- George Tucker (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Jabez Leftwich (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- James Stephenson (Crawford Federalist) — NAY
- Jared Williams (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- John Floyd (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- John Strode Barbour (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- John Taliaferro (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Johnson (Jackson Republican) — YEA
- Mark Alexander (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- Philip Pendleton Barbour (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- Robert Selden Garnett (Crawford Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Adams-Clay Republican) — NAY
- William Cabell Rives (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- William McCoy (Crawford Republican) — NAY
- William Segar Archer (Crawford Republican) — YEA
- William Smith (Crawford Republican) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 213 members
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