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Recorded vote
TO TABLE THE H.RES. THAT A SELECT COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE SPEAKER INVESTIGATE RATES AND DUTIES ON IMPORTS AND SIT DURING THE RECESS OF CONGRESS. (P. 421-2)
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 8 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: 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 5 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no, 3 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 14 yes, 10 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 6 no, 5 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: 4 yes, 3 no
- Ohio: 7 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 10 yes, 12 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 4 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 10 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 8 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 8 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 0 no, 6 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 3 yes, 0 no, 6 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 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Glover Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dixon Hall Lewis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Smith Houston (Democrat) — YEA
- Reuben Chapman (Democrat) — YEA
- William Winter Payne (Democrat) — YEA
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no
- Edward Cross (Democrat) — YEA
Connecticut 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Hall Brockway (Whig) — NAY
- Joseph Trumbull (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Burr Osborne (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Wheeler Williams (Whig) — NAY
- Truman Smith (Whig) — NAY
- William Whiting Boardman (Whig) — NAY
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James A. Meriwether (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Julius Caesar Alford (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Lott Warren (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Wylly Habersham (Whig) — YEA
- Roger Lawson Gamble (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Butler King (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Flournoy Foster (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — YEA
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Reynolds (Democrat) — YEA
- John Todd Stuart (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Zadok Casey (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 4 yes, 3 no
Kentucky 4 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Bryan Young Owsley (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Garrett Davis (Whig) — YEA
- James Cresap Sprigg (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — YEA
- John Pope (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John White (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig) — YEA
- Landaff Watson Andrews (Whig) — NAY
- Linn Boyd (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Triplett (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Marshall (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Orlando Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Green (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Douglass White (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Bennett Dawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Moore (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 1 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Barker Burnell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Caleb Cushing (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hudson (Whig) — NAY
- George Nixon Briggs (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Quincy Adams (Whig) — NAY
- Leverett Saltonstall (Whig) — NAY
- Nathaniel Briggs Borden (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Osmyn Baker (Whig) — NAY
- Robert Charles Winthrop (Whig) — NAY
- William Barron Calhoun (Whig) — YEA
- William Parmenter (Democrat) — NAY
- William Soden Hastings (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 2 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Randall (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers (Whig) — YEA
- Isaac Dashiell Jones (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Wray Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Pendleton Kennedy (Whig) — NAY
- John Thomson Mason (Democrat) — YEA
- William Cost Johnson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maine 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Randall (Whig) — NAY
- David Bronson (Whig) — NAY
- Elisha Hunt Allen (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Adams Lowell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Clifford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Swett Littlefield (Democrat) — YEA
- William Pitt Fessenden (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Merritt Howard (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Thompson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKendree Gwin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 8 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Rencher (Whig) — YEA
- Archibald Hunter Arrington (Democrat) — YEA
- Augustine Henry Shepperd (Whig) — YEA
- Edmund Deberry (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Stanly (Whig) — NAY
- Greene Washington Caldwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Graham (Whig) — YEA
- James Iver McKay (Democrat) — YEA
- John Reeves Jones Daniel (Democrat) — YEA
- Kenneth Rayner (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Williams (Whig) — YEA
- Romulus Mitchell Saunders (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Washington (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Gordon Atherton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edmund Burke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ira Allen Eastman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Randall Reding (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Tristram Shaw (Democrat) — YEA
New Jersey 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Creighton Stratton (Whig) — NAY
- John Bancker Aycrigg (Whig) — NAY
- John Patterson Bryan Maxwell (Whig) — NAY
- Joseph Fitz Randolph (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Jones Yorke (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Halstead (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New York 14 yes, 10 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- A. Lawrence Foster (Whig) — NAY
- Aaron Ward (Democrat) — YEA
- Alfred Babcock (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Andrew Wheeler Doig (Democrat) — YEA
- Archibald Ladley Linn (Whig) — YEA
- Bernard Blair (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Albert Floyd (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Goadsby Ferris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Christopher Morgan (Whig) — NAY
- Daniel Dewey Barnard (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- David P. Brewster (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bell van Rensselaer (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Hiram Paine Hunt (Whig) — NAY
- Jacob Houck Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- James Graham Clinton (Democrat) — YEA
- James I. Roosevelt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Chamberlain Clark (Whig) — NAY
- John Gelston Floyd (Democrat) — YEA
- John Greig (Whig) — NAY
- John Maynard (Whig) — NAY
- John McKeon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sanford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John van Buren (Democrat) — YEA
- John Young (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Egbert (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Riggs (Democrat) — YEA
- Millard Fillmore (Whig) — NAY
- Richard David Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert McClellan (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Gordon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Partridge (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Smith Bowne (Democrat) — YEA
- Seth Merrill Gates (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Staley Nichols Clarke (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Ash Tomlinson (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Cotton Chittenden (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Childs (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Victory Birdseye (Whig) — NAY
- William Morrison Oliver (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 7 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Sprague Cowen (Whig) — YEA
- Calvary Morris (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Ezra Dean (Democrat) — YEA
- George Sweeny (Democrat) — YEA
- James Mathews (Democrat) — YEA
- Jeremiah Morrow (Whig) — NAY
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hastings (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Ridgway (Whig) — NAY
- Joshua Mathiot (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Nathanael Greene Pendleton (Whig) — NAY
- Patrick Gaines Goode (Whig) — YEA
- Samson Mason (Whig) — NAY
- Samuel Stokely (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Sherlock James Andrews (Whig) — NAY
- William Doan (Democrat) — YEA
- William Medill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Russell (Whig) — NAY
Pennsylvania 10 yes, 12 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Marchand (Democrat) — YEA
- Amos Gustine (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Arnold Plumer (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Alden Bidlack (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jared Ingersoll (Democrat) — NAY
- Davis Dimock Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Francis James (Whig) — NAY
- George May Keim (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Toland (Whig) — NAY
- Henry Black (Whig) — NAY
- Henry White Beeson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Cooper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Gerry (Democrat) — YEA
- James Irvin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Jeremiah Brown (Whig) — NAY
- John Edwards (Whig) — NAY
- John Sergeant (Whig) — YEA
- John Snyder (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Westbrook (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Fornance (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Lawrence (Whig) — NAY
- Joseph Reed Ingersoll (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Newhard (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Ramsey (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Henry (Whig) — NAY
- William Jack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Simonton (Whig) — NAY
- William Wallace Irwin (Whig) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Edward Holmes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Campbell (Democrat) — YEA
- Patrick Calhoun Caldwell (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Barnwell Rhett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sampson Hale Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas De Lage Sumter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Butler (Whig) — YEA
Tennessee 8 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Venable Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- Abraham McClellan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Cave Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- Christopher Harris Williams (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Harvey Magee Watterson (Democrat) — YEA
- Hopkins Lacy Turney (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Lanier Williams (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry (Whig) — YEA
- Milton Brown (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Looney Caruthers (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dickens Arnold (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Jefferson Campbell (Whig) — YEA
- William Bowen Campbell (Whig) — YEA
Virginia 10 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (Whig) — NAY
- Cuthbert Powell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Edmund Wilcox Hubard (Democrat) — YEA
- Francis Mallory (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- George Booth Cary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Summers (Whig) — YEA
- Henry Alexander Wise (Whig) — YEA
- John Minor Botts (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Taliaferro (Whig) — NAY
- John Winston Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Steenrod (Democrat) — YEA
- Linn Banks (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Walker Barton (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Lewis Hays (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Walker Gilmer (Whig) — NAY
- Walter Coles (Democrat) — YEA
- William Alexander Harris (Democrat) — YEA
- William Leftwich Goggin (Whig) — YEA
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 5 no
- Augustus Young (Whig) — NAY
- Hiland Hall (Whig) — NAY
- Horace Everett (Whig) — NAY
- John Mattocks (Whig) — NAY
- William Slade (Whig) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 245 members
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