The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO RECONSIDER VOTE PASSING A RESOLUTION THAT THE COMM. ON PUBLIC LANDS BE INSTRUCTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE EXPEDIENCY OF REDUCING AND GRADUATING THE PRICE OF THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE U.S. AS SHALL HAVE BEEN FIVE …
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 6 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, 3 no
- Vermont: 4 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 3 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, 1 no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 15 yes, 18 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 11 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 3 no
- Ohio: 9 yes, 5 no
- Pennsylvania: 20 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 5 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 10 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 8 no
- North Carolina: 8 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 3 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustin Smith Clayton (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Newnan (Jackson) — NAY
- Henry Graybill Lamar (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Moore Wayne (Jackson) — NAY
- Richard Henry Wilde (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Flournoy Foster (Jackson) — NAY
- Wiley Thompson (Jackson) — NAY
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no
- Joseph Duncan (Jackson) — NAY
Indiana 0 yes, 3 no
- John Carr (Jackson) — NAY
- Johnathan McCarty (Jackson) — NAY
- Ratliff Boon (Jackson) — NAY
Kentucky 5 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Hawes (Jackson) — NAY
- Charles Anderson Wickliffe (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Chilton Allan (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Chittenden Lyon (Jackson) — NAY
- Christopher Tompkins (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Henry Daniel (Jackson) — YEA
- John Adair (Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Lecompte (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Gaither (Jackson) — NAY
- Richard Mentor Johnson (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Perkins Letcher (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Alexander Marshall (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Louisiana 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Douglass White (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Adams Bullard (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Philemon Thomas (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
Massachusetts 11 yes, 0 no, 2 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) — YEA
- John Davis (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Quincy Adams (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Reed (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Gowing Kendall (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Nathan Appleton (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Rufus Choate (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Benedict Joseph Semmes (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Benjamin Chew Howard (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Charles S. Sewall (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Jenifer (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Francis Thomas (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- George Corbin Washington (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Leeds Kerr (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Selby Spence (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Tolley Hood Worthington (Jackson) — NAY
Maine 4 yes, 3 no
Missouri 0 yes, 1 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 8 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Rencher (Jackson) — YEA
- Augustine Henry Shepperd (Jackson) — YEA
- Daniel Laurens Barringer (Jackson) — YEA
- Henry William Connor (Jackson) — YEA
- James Iver McKay (Jackson) — YEA
- Jesse Speight (Jackson) — NAY
- John Branch (Jackson) — YEA
- 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 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Hubbard (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Brodhead (Jackson) — NAY
- John Wingate Weeks (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Hammons (Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Morrill Harper (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Chandler (Jackson) — YEA
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 15 yes, 18 no, 1 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) — NAY
- Gamaliel Henry Barstow (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Gerrit Yates Lansing (Jackson) — NAY
- Grattan Henry Wheeler (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (Jackson) — NAY
- James Lent (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Job Pierson (Jackson) — NAY
- John Allen Collier (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John Curtis Brodhead (Jackson) — NAY
- John Dickson (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John King (Jackson) — YEA
- 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) — NAY
- William Hogan (Jackson) — YEA
Ohio 9 yes, 5 no
- Eleutheros Cooke (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Elisha Whittlesey (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Humphrey Howe Leavitt (Jackson) — NAY
- James Findlay (Jackson) — NAY
- 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) — NAY
Pennsylvania 20 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Adam King (Jackson) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Henry Horn (Jackson) — NAY
- Henry King (Jackson) — YEA
- James Ford (Jackson) — YEA
- Joel Barlow Sutherland (Jackson) — YEA
- Joel Keith Mann (Jackson) — NAY
- John Banks (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John Conrad Bucher (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Gilmore (Jackson) — NAY
- John Goddard Watmough (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joshua Evans Jr. (Jackson) — YEA
- Lewis Dewart (Jackson) — YEA
- Peter Ihrie Jr. (Jackson) — YEA
- Philander Stephens (Jackson) — NAY
- Richard Coulter (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- 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 3 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- George McDuffie (Nullifier) — NOT VOTING
- James Blair (Jackson) — YEA
- John King Griffin (Nullifier) — NAY
- John Myers Felder (Jackson) — YEA
- Robert Woodward Barnwell (Nullifier) — NAY
- Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Warren Ransom Davis (Nullifier) — NOT VOTING
- William Drayton (Jackson) — YEA
- William Thompson Nuckolls (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 8 no
Virginia 6 yes, 10 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Stevenson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Fenton Mercer (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- John Jones Roane (Jackson) — YEA
- John Mercer Patton (Jackson) — NAY
- John Strode Barbour (Jackson) — NAY
- John Young Mason (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph William Chinn (Jackson) — NAY
- Lewis Maxwell (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Mark Alexander (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (Jackson) — NAY
- Richard Coke Jr. (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Allen (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Craig (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Davenport (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Tyler Bouldin (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William Armstrong (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William Fitzhugh Gordon (Jackson) — NAY
- William McCoy (Jackson) — YEA
- William Segar Archer (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 4 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 211 members
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