The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO CONSIDER THE SENATE BILL, ENTITLED THE COLONIAL TRADE BILL, TO REGULATE THE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE COLONIES OF GREAT BRITIAN.
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 12 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 9 every one voted no; 3 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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, 1 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Calvin Willey (Adams) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Waggaman Edwards (Jackson) — NAY
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 1 yes, 1 no
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Noble (Adams) — NOT VOTING
- William Hendricks (Adams) — YEA
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Elijah Hunt Mills (Adams) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Silsbee (Adams) — NAY
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no
Maine 0 yes, 2 no
- John Chandler (Jackson) — NAY
- John Holmes (Adams) — NAY
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
- David Barton (Adams) — YEA
- Thomas Hart Benton (Jackson) — YEA
Mississippi 2 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
- John Branch (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Jackson) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
- Levi Woodbury (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Bell (Adams) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
- Martin van Buren (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathan Sanford (Adams) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 2 no
- William Findlay (Jackson) — NAY
- 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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