The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
House recorded vote (3rd Congress) · May 16, 1794
H.R. 39
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.R. 39.
Passage
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. 39
The map
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 4 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: 3 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: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 1 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 12 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: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 5 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 7 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: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 4 yes, 12 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 0 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: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 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 7 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 12 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Artemas Ward (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Benjamin Goodhue (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- David Cobb (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Dwight Foster (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Fisher Ames (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- George Thacher (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Henry Dearborn (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Peleg Coffin Jr. (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Dexter (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Holten (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Shearjashub Bourne (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Sedgwick (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Lyman (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Gabriel Christie (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Gabriel Duvall (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Dent (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sprigg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Uriah Forrest (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Hindman (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Vans Murray (Pro-Administration) — YEA
North Carolina 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Mebane (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Benjamin Williams (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Gillespie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Joseph McDowell (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Joseph Winston (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Matthew Locke (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Barry Grove (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Johnson Dawson (Anti-Administration) — NAY
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no
New York 1 yes, 8 no, 1 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) — YEA
- Peter van Gaasbeck (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Silas Talbot (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Tredwell (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 5 yes, 5 no, 3 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) — NAY
- John Smilie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Wilkes Kittera (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Fitzsimons (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Scott (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Findley (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- William Irvine (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 4 yes, 12 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Bedford Venable (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Andrew Moore (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Anthony New (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Carter Bassett Harrison (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Preston (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Francis Walker (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- George Hancock (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Isaac Coles (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- James Madison Jr. (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Heath (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Nicholas (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Page (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Joseph Neville (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Josiah Parker (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Richard Bland Lee (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Robert Rutherford (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Griffin (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Claiborne (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- William Branch Giles (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Niles (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Official records
Every vote, by name — 106 members
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