The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE ON PERMITTING THE INTERROGATORY TO WHICH THE WITNESS WAS ANSWERING, IN THE TRIAL OF SAMUEL HOUSTON. (P. 2579)
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 1 state every member on the roll voted yes; in 11 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: 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 4 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, 1 no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 14 yes, 17 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 7 yes, 4 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, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 9 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 6 yes, 16 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 4 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 11 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 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: 3 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 3 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 6 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 3 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 4 no, 3 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, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Clement Comer Clay (Jackson) — NAY
- Dixon Hall Lewis (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Wright Mardis (Jackson) — NAY
Connecticut 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 0 yes, 4 no, 3 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) — NOT VOTING
- 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, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Carr (Jackson) — NAY
- Johnathan McCarty (Jackson) — NAY
- Ratliff Boon (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 4 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Hawes (Jackson) — YEA
- Charles Anderson Wickliffe (Jackson) — YEA
- Chilton Allan (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Chittenden Lyon (Jackson) — NAY
- Christopher Tompkins (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Henry Daniel (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Adair (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Lecompte (Jackson) — NAY
- Nathan Gaither (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Mentor Johnson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Perkins Letcher (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Alexander Marshall (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 3 no
Massachusetts 7 yes, 4 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) — NAY
- Isaac Chapman Bates (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- James Leonard Hodges (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Appleton (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Rufus Choate (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
Maryland 0 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Benedict Joseph Semmes (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Chew Howard (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Jenifer (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Francis Thomas (Jackson) — NAY
- George Corbin Washington (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- George Edward Mitchell (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Leeds Kerr (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- John Selby Spence (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Tolley Hood Worthington (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
Maine 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Holland (Jackson) — YEA
- Edward Kavanagh (Jackson) — YEA
- George Evans (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Bates (Jackson) — YEA
- John Anderson (Jackson) — NAY
- Leonard Jarvis (Jackson) — NAY
- Rufus McIntire (Jackson) — NAY
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 3 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Rencher (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- Lauchlin Bethune (Jackson) — NAY
- Lewis Williams (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Micajah Thomas Hawkins (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Price Carson (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas H. Hall (Jackson) — NAY
- William Biddle Shepard (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
New Hampshire 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Hubbard (Jackson) — NAY
- John Brodhead (Jackson) — NAY
- John Wingate Weeks (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Hammons (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Morrill Harper (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Chandler (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Isaac Southard (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Fitz Randolph (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Lewis Condict (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Richard Matlack Cooper (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Condit (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Hurst Hughes (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
New York 14 yes, 17 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Ward (Jackson) — NAY
- Bates Cooke (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- Campbell Patrick White (Jackson) — YEA
- Charles Dayan (Jackson) — NAY
- Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (Jackson) — YEA
- Daniel Wardwell (Jackson) — YEA
- Edmund Henry Pendleton (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Edward Cambridge Reed (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- James Lent (Jackson) — NAY
- Job Pierson (Jackson) — NAY
- John Allen Collier (Anti Masonic) — NOT VOTING
- John Curtis Brodhead (Jackson) — NAY
- John Dickson (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Samuel Jones Wilkin (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (Jackson) — NAY
- William Babcock (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- William G. Angel (Jackson) — NAY
- William Hogan (Jackson) — NAY
Ohio 2 yes, 9 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Eleutheros Cooke (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Elisha Whittlesey (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Humphrey Howe Leavitt (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Findlay (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- John Thomson (Jackson) — NAY
- Joseph Halsey Crane (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Joseph Vance (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel Finley Vinton (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Corwin (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Creighton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Kennon Sr. (Jackson) — NAY
- William Russell (Jackson) — NAY
- William Stanbery (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- William W. Irvin (Jackson) — NAY
Pennsylvania 6 yes, 16 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Adam King (Jackson) — NAY
- Andrew Stewart (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- David Potts Jr. (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- George Burd (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Harmar Denny (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg (Jackson) — NAY
- Henry Horn (Jackson) — NAY
- Henry King (Jackson) — NAY
- James Ford (Jackson) — NAY
- Joel Barlow Sutherland (Jackson) — YEA
- Joel Keith Mann (Jackson) — NAY
- John Banks (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- John Conrad Bucher (Jackson) — NAY
- John Gilmore (Jackson) — NAY
- John Goddard Watmough (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Evans Jr. (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Dewart (Jackson) — NAY
- Peter Ihrie Jr. (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Philander Stephens (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Coulter (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Allison (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- Robert McCoy (Jackson) — NAY
- Samuel A. Smith (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Hartley Crawford (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (Anti Masonic) — YEA
- William Hiester (Anti Masonic) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 6 no
- George McDuffie (Nullifier) — NAY
- James Blair (Jackson) — NAY
- John King Griffin (Nullifier) — NAY
- John Myers Felder (Jackson) — NAY
- Robert Woodward Barnwell (Nullifier) — YEA
- Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell (Jackson) — NAY
- Warren Ransom Davis (Nullifier) — YEA
- William Drayton (Jackson) — YEA
- William Thompson Nuckolls (Jackson) — NAY
Tennessee 3 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cave Johnson (Jackson) — YEA
- Jacob C. Isacks (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- James Israel Standifer (Jackson) — NAY
- James Knox Polk (Jackson) — YEA
- John Bell (Jackson) — NAY
- John Blair (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Dickens Arnold (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- William Fitzgerald (Jackson) — NAY
- William Hall (Jackson) — NAY
Virginia 11 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Stevenson (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Clement Johnston (Jackson) — NAY
- 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) — YEA
- Joseph William Chinn (Jackson) — YEA
- Lewis Maxwell (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Mark Alexander (Jackson) — YEA
- Nathaniel Herbert Claiborne (Jackson) — NAY
- Philip Doddridge (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Richard Coke Jr. (Jackson) — YEA
- Robert Allen (Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Craig (Jackson) — NAY
- Thomas Davenport (Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Anti-Jackson) — YEA
- Thomas Tyler Bouldin (Jackson) — NAY
- William Armstrong (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Fitzhugh Gordon (Jackson) — NAY
- William McCoy (Jackson) — NAY
- William Segar Archer (Jackson) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Heman Allen (Anti-Jackson) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Everett (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- Jonathan Hunt (Anti-Jackson) — NAY
- William Cahoon (Anti Masonic) — NAY
- William Slade (Anti Masonic) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 214 members
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