The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
House recorded vote (3rd Congress) · April 24, 1794
H.R. 40
Recorded vote
TO ORDER ENGROSSMENT AND THIRD READING OF H.R. 40, A BILL TO SUSPEND THE IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN GOODS, WARES AND MERCHANDISE.
Bill actionDefense & war
The tally
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
The people
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
The official record
- 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).
The tally
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
The measure itself
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.
Same measure, other votes
Every roll call on H.R. 40
The map
How each state's members voted
In 5 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 7 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: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 2 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: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 2 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 10 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: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 9 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 7 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: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 18 yes, 1 no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 2 no, 1 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: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 2 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.
Connecticut 0 yes, 7 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 10 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Artemas Ward (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Benjamin Goodhue (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- David Cobb (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Dwight Foster (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Fisher Ames (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- George Thacher (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Henry Dearborn (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Peleg Coffin Jr. (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Peleg Wadsworth (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Samuel Dexter (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Samuel Holten (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Shearjashub Bourne (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Theodore Sedgwick (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Lyman (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Maryland 5 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Gabriel Christie (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Gabriel Duvall (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Dent (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Sprigg (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Uriah Forrest (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Hindman (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Vans Murray (Pro-Administration) — YEA
North Carolina 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Mebane (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Benjamin Williams (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- James Gillespie (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Joseph McDowell (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Joseph Winston (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Matthew Locke (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Blount (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Barry Grove (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Johnson Dawson (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Clark (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Elias Boudinot (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Beatty (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Jonathan Dayton (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Lambert Cadwalader (Pro-Administration) — YEA
New York 2 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ezekiel Gilbert (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Henry Glen (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- James Gordon (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- John Evert van Alen (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- John Watts (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Peter van Gaasbeck (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Philip van Cortlandt (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Talbot (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Tredwell (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Pennsylvania 9 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Daniel Hiester (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Armstrong (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Smilie (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Wilkes Kittera (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Fitzsimons (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Hartley (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Scott (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Findley (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Irvine (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Montgomery (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 18 yes, 1 no
- Abraham Bedford Venable (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Andrew Moore (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Anthony New (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Carter Bassett Harrison (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Francis Preston (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Francis Walker (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- George Hancock (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Isaac Coles (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- James Madison Jr. (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Heath (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Nicholas (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Page (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Joseph Neville (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Josiah Parker (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Richard Bland Lee (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Robert Rutherford (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Griffin (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Claiborne (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Branch Giles (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Nathaniel Niles (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Official records
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