The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS A RESOLUTION STATING: "THAT WITHOUT EXPRESSING ITS OPINION AS TO THE EXPEDIENCY OF THE U.S. BEING REPRESENTED AT THE CONGRESS OF TACUBYA, THE SENATE ARE OF THE OPINION THAT NO FURTHER STEPS OUGHT TO BE…
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 senators voted
In 6 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 8 every one voted no; 10 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 1 yes, 1 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 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, 2 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 1 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 1 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 2 no
- Delaware: 1 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, 0 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 2 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 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 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 1 yes, 1 no
Indiana 0 yes, 2 no
- James Noble (Adams) — NAY
- William Hendricks (Adams) — NAY
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 0 yes, 2 no
Maine 1 yes, 1 no
- John Chandler (Jackson) — YEA
- John Holmes (Adams) — NAY
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
- David Barton (Adams) — NAY
- Thomas Hart Benton (Jackson) — YEA
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
- John Branch (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Jackson) — YEA
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no
- Levi Woodbury (Jackson) — YEA
- Samuel Bell (Adams) — NAY
New Jersey 1 yes, 1 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
- Martin van Buren (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathan Sanford (Adams) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 1 no
- William Findlay (Jackson) — YEA
- William Marks (Adams) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
- Dudley Chase (Adams) — NAY
- Horatio Seymour (Adams) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 48 members
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