The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADVISE AND CONSENT TO THE NOMINATION OF WILLIAM B. ROCHESTER, AS A MINISTER TO REPRESENT THE U.S. AT THE CONGRESS OF PANAMA.
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 8 every one voted no; 4 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: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 1 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no
- Delaware: 2 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 2 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 2 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 0 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no
Delaware 2 yes, 0 no
- Nicholas van Dyke (Adams) — YEA
- Thomas Clayton (Adams) — YEA
Georgia 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 2 yes, 0 no
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no
- James Noble (Adams) — YEA
- William Hendricks (Adams) — YEA
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 0 no
- Elijah Hunt Mills (Adams) — YEA
- James Lloyd (Adams) — YEA
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 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
- John Branch (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Jackson) — NAY
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no
- Levi Woodbury (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Bell (Adams) — YEA
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph McIlvaine (Adams) — NOT VOTING
- Mahlon Dickerson (Jackson) — NAY
New York 1 yes, 1 no
- Martin van Buren (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Sanford (Adams) — YEA
Ohio 2 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 0 no
- William Findlay (Jackson) — YEA
- William Marks (Adams) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Young Hayne (Jackson) — NAY
- William Harper (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Randolph (Jackson) — NAY
- Littleton Waller Tazewell (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
- Dudley Chase (Adams) — YEA
- Horatio Seymour (Adams) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 47 members
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