The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION ON A RESOLUTION REGARDING CONTEMPT OF 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 6 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 12 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: 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 5 yes, 0 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: 15 yes, 4 no, 15 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 8 no, 4 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: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 5 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 15 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 5 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 3 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 10 yes, 1 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 7 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 3 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Young (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Jabez Williams Huntington (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Noyes Barber (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Lucius Storrs (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Wolcott Ellsworth (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Jones Milligan (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 7 yes, 0 no
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Duncan (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Carr (Jackson) — YEA
- Johnathan McCarty (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Ratliff Boon (Jackson) — YEA
Kentucky 3 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Hawes (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Anderson Wickliffe (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Chilton Allan (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Chittenden Lyon (Jackson) — YEA
- Christopher Tompkins (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Henry Daniel (Jackson) — NAY
- John Adair (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Lecompte (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathan Gaither (Jackson) — YEA
- Richard Mentor Johnson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Perkins Letcher (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Alexander Marshall (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Douglass White (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Adams Bullard (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Philemon Thomas (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 1 yes, 8 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Everett (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- George Grennell Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- George Nixon Briggs (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Isaac Chapman Bates (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- James Leonard Hodges (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Jeremiah Nelson (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Davis (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Quincy Adams (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- John Reed (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Gowing Kendall (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Appleton (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Rufus Choate (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Benedict Joseph Semmes (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Chew Howard (Jackson) — YEA
- Daniel Jenifer (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Thomas (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- George Corbin Washington (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- John Leeds Kerr (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- John Selby Spence (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Tolley Hood Worthington (Jackson) — YEA
Maine 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Holland (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Kavanagh (Jackson) — YEA
- George Evans (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- James Bates (Jackson) — YEA
- John Anderson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Jarvis (Jackson) — YEA
- Rufus McIntire (Jackson) — YEA
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 6 yes, 2 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Rencher (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Augustine Henry Shepperd (Jackson) — NAY
- Daniel Laurens Barringer (Jackson) — YEA
- Henry William Connor (Jackson) — YEA
- James Iver McKay (Jackson) — YEA
- Jesse Speight (Jackson) — YEA
- John Branch (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Lauchlin Bethune (Jackson) — YEA
- Lewis Williams (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Micajah Thomas Hawkins (Jackson) — YEA
- Samuel Price Carson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas H. Hall (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Biddle Shepard (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Hubbard (Jackson) — YEA
- John Brodhead (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Wingate Weeks (Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Hammons (Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Morrill Harper (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Chandler (Jackson) — YEA
New Jersey 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 15 yes, 4 no, 15 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Ward (Jackson) — YEA
- Bates Cooke (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- Campbell Patrick White (Jackson) — YEA
- Charles Dayan (Jackson) — YEA
- Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (Jackson) — YEA
- Daniel Wardwell (Jackson) — YEA
- Edmund Henry Pendleton (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Edward Cambridge Reed (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Erastus Root (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Whittlesey (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- Freeborn Garrettson Jewett (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Gamaliel Henry Barstow (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- Gerrit Yates Lansing (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Grattan Henry Wheeler (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (Jackson) — YEA
- James Lent (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Job Pierson (Jackson) — YEA
- John Allen Collier (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- John Curtis Brodhead (Jackson) — YEA
- John Dickson (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- John King (Jackson) — YEA
- John Teunis Bergen (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John W. Taylor (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Bouck (Jackson) — YEA
- Michael Hoffman (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathan Soule (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Pitcher (Jackson) — YEA
- Phineas Lyman Tracy (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- Samuel Beardsley (Jackson) — YEA
- Samuel Jones Wilkin (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (Jackson) — YEA
- William Babcock (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- William G. Angel (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Hogan (Jackson) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 5 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Eleutheros Cooke (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Elisha Whittlesey (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Humphrey Howe Leavitt (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Findlay (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Thomson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Halsey Crane (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Vance (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Finley Vinton (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Corwin (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Creighton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Kennon Sr. (Jackson) — YEA
- William Russell (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Stanbery (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William W. Irvin (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 15 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Adam King (Jackson) — YEA
- Andrew Stewart (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- David Potts Jr. (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- George Burd (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Harmar Denny (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg (Jackson) — YEA
- Henry Horn (Jackson) — YEA
- Henry King (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Ford (Jackson) — YEA
- Joel Barlow Sutherland (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Joel Keith Mann (Jackson) — YEA
- John Banks (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John Conrad Bucher (Jackson) — YEA
- John Gilmore (Jackson) — YEA
- John Goddard Watmough (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Joshua Evans Jr. (Jackson) — NAY
- Lewis Dewart (Jackson) — NAY
- Peter Ihrie Jr. (Jackson) — YEA
- Philander Stephens (Jackson) — YEA
- Richard Coulter (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Allison (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Robert McCoy (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel A. Smith (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley Crawford (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- William Hiester (Anti Masonic) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- George McDuffie (Nullifier) — YEA
- James Blair (Jackson) — YEA
- John King Griffin (Nullifier) — YEA
- John Myers Felder (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Woodward Barnwell (Nullifier) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell (Jackson) — YEA
- Warren Ransom Davis (Nullifier) — NOT VOTING
- William Drayton (Jackson) — YEA
- William Thompson Nuckolls (Jackson) — NAY
Tennessee 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cave Johnson (Jackson) — YEA
- Jacob C. Isacks (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Israel Standifer (Jackson) — YEA
- James Knox Polk (Jackson) — YEA
- John Bell (Jackson) — YEA
- John Blair (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Dickens Arnold (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Fitzgerald (Jackson) — YEA
- William Hall (Jackson) — YEA
Virginia 10 yes, 1 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Stevenson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Fenton Mercer (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Jones Roane (Jackson) — YEA
- John Mercer Patton (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Strode Barbour (Jackson) — YEA
- John Young Mason (Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph William Chinn (Jackson) — YEA
- Lewis Maxwell (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Mark Alexander (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Doddridge (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Richard Coke Jr. (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Allen (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Craig (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Davenport (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Tyler Bouldin (Jackson) — YEA
- William Armstrong (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Fitzhugh Gordon (Jackson) — YEA
- William McCoy (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Segar Archer (Jackson) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Heman Allen (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Everett (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Cahoon (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- William Slade (Anti Masonic) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 211 members
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