The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS S. 147.
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)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
Every roll call on S. 147
How each state's members voted
In 8 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 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: 1 yes, 6 no
- Vermont: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 12 yes, 18 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 12 yes, 0 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, 2 no
- Ohio: 10 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 24 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 6 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 6 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 6 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 11 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 3 no
- Delaware: 1 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: 2 yes, 7 no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 6 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: 3 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 3 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 7 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, 3 no
Connecticut 6 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 7 no
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Duncan (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 2 no
- John Carr (Jackson) — NAY
- Johnathan McCarty (Jackson) — NAY
- Ratliff Boon (Jackson) — YEA
Kentucky 6 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Hawes (Jackson) — NAY
- Charles Anderson Wickliffe (Jackson) — YEA
- Chilton Allan (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Chittenden Lyon (Jackson) — NAY
- Christopher Tompkins (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Henry Daniel (Jackson) — YEA
- John Adair (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Lecompte (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Gaither (Jackson) — NAY
- Richard Mentor Johnson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Perkins Letcher (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Alexander Marshall (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Louisiana 3 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 12 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Everett (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- George Grennell Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- George Nixon Briggs (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Isaac Chapman Bates (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- James Leonard Hodges (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Jeremiah Nelson (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Davis (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Quincy Adams (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Reed (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Gowing Kendall (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Nathan Appleton (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Rufus Choate (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Maryland 5 yes, 3 no
- Benedict Joseph Semmes (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Benjamin Chew Howard (Jackson) — NAY
- Daniel Jenifer (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Francis Thomas (Jackson) — NAY
- George Corbin Washington (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Leeds Kerr (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Selby Spence (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Tolley Hood Worthington (Jackson) — NAY
Maine 1 yes, 6 no
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 4 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Rencher (Jackson) — NAY
- Augustine Henry Shepperd (Jackson) — YEA
- Daniel Laurens Barringer (Jackson) — YEA
- Henry William Connor (Jackson) — NAY
- James Iver McKay (Jackson) — NAY
- Jesse Speight (Jackson) — NAY
- John Branch (Jackson) — NAY
- Lauchlin Bethune (Jackson) — NAY
- Lewis Williams (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Micajah Thomas Hawkins (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Price Carson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas H. Hall (Jackson) — NAY
- William Biddle Shepard (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Hubbard (Jackson) — NAY
- John Brodhead (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Wingate Weeks (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Hammons (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Morrill Harper (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Chandler (Jackson) — NAY
New Jersey 6 yes, 0 no
New York 12 yes, 18 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Ward (Jackson) — NAY
- Bates Cooke (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Campbell Patrick White (Jackson) — NAY
- Charles Dayan (Jackson) — NAY
- Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (Jackson) — NAY
- Daniel Wardwell (Jackson) — NAY
- Edmund Henry Pendleton (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Edward Cambridge Reed (Jackson) — NAY
- Erastus Root (Jackson) — YEA
- Frederick Whittlesey (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Freeborn Garrettson Jewett (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Gamaliel Henry Barstow (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Gerrit Yates Lansing (Jackson) — NAY
- Grattan Henry Wheeler (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (Jackson) — YEA
- James Lent (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Job Pierson (Jackson) — NAY
- John Allen Collier (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John Curtis Brodhead (Jackson) — NAY
- John Dickson (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- John King (Jackson) — NAY
- John Teunis Bergen (Jackson) — NAY
- John W. Taylor (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Bouck (Jackson) — NAY
- Michael Hoffman (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Soule (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathaniel Pitcher (Jackson) — YEA
- Phineas Lyman Tracy (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Samuel Beardsley (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Jones Wilkin (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (Jackson) — NAY
- William Babcock (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- William G. Angel (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Hogan (Jackson) — NAY
Ohio 10 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eleutheros Cooke (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Elisha Whittlesey (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Humphrey Howe Leavitt (Jackson) — NAY
- James Findlay (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Thomson (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Halsey Crane (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Vance (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Samuel Finley Vinton (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Corwin (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William Creighton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William Kennon Sr. (Jackson) — NAY
- William Russell (Jackson) — YEA
- William Stanbery (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William W. Irvin (Jackson) — YEA
Pennsylvania 24 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Adam King (Jackson) — NAY
- Andrew Stewart (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- David Potts Jr. (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- George Burd (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Harmar Denny (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Horn (Jackson) — YEA
- Henry King (Jackson) — YEA
- James Ford (Jackson) — YEA
- Joel Barlow Sutherland (Jackson) — YEA
- Joel Keith Mann (Jackson) — YEA
- John Banks (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John Conrad Bucher (Jackson) — YEA
- John Gilmore (Jackson) — YEA
- John Goddard Watmough (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joshua Evans Jr. (Jackson) — YEA
- Lewis Dewart (Jackson) — YEA
- Peter Ihrie Jr. (Jackson) — YEA
- Philander Stephens (Jackson) — YEA
- Richard Coulter (Jackson) — YEA
- Robert Allison (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Robert McCoy (Jackson) — YEA
- Samuel A. Smith (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley Crawford (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- William Hiester (Anti Masonic) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George McDuffie (Nullifier) — YEA
- James Blair (Jackson) — NAY
- John King Griffin (Nullifier) — NAY
- John Myers Felder (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Woodward Barnwell (Nullifier) — NAY
- Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell (Jackson) — NAY
- Warren Ransom Davis (Nullifier) — NOT VOTING
- William Drayton (Jackson) — YEA
- William Thompson Nuckolls (Jackson) — NAY
Tennessee 2 yes, 7 no
Virginia 6 yes, 11 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Stevenson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Fenton Mercer (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Jones Roane (Jackson) — NAY
- John Mercer Patton (Jackson) — NAY
- John Strode Barbour (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Young Mason (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph William Chinn (Jackson) — NAY
- Lewis Maxwell (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Mark Alexander (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (Jackson) — NAY
- Philip Doddridge (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Richard Coke Jr. (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Allen (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Craig (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Davenport (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Tyler Bouldin (Jackson) — NAY
- William Armstrong (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William Fitzhugh Gordon (Jackson) — NAY
- William McCoy (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Segar Archer (Jackson) — NAY
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Heman Allen (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Horace Everett (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William Cahoon (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- William Slade (Anti Masonic) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 211 members
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