The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
House recorded vote (3rd Congress) · May 31, 1794
H.R. 56
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.R. 56, A BILL TO LAY DUTIES ON LICENSES FOR SELLING WINES AND DISTILLED SPIRITS, BY RETAIL.
PassageTaxes & tariffs
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.
The map
How each state's members voted
In 4 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 8 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 7 yes, 3 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 10 yes, 1 no, 3 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, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 5 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: 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: 8 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 8 yes, 2 no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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.
Connecticut 5 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Learned (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Hillhouse (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Jeremiah Wadsworth (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Joshua Coit (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Uriah Tracy (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Zephaniah Swift (Pro-Administration) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Latimer (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 10 yes, 1 no, 3 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) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Holten (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Shearjashub Bourne (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Sedgwick (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Lyman (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Maryland 1 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Gabriel Christie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Gabriel Duvall (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Dent (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sprigg (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Uriah Forrest (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Hindman (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Vans Murray (Pro-Administration) — YEA
North Carolina 8 yes, 2 no
- Alexander Mebane (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Benjamin Williams (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- James Gillespie (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Joseph McDowell (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Joseph Winston (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Matthew Locke (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Barry Grove (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Johnson Dawson (Anti-Administration) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Smith (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Samuel Sherburne (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Gilman (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Paine Wingate (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 2 yes, 0 no, 3 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) — NOT VOTING
New York 7 yes, 3 no
- Ezekiel Gilbert (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Henry Glen (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- James Gordon (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Evert van Alen (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Watts (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Peter van Gaasbeck (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Philip van Cortlandt (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Silas Talbot (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Theodorus Bailey (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Tredwell (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Pennsylvania 5 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Hiester (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Armstrong (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Smilie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Wilkes Kittera (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Fitzsimons (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Scott (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Findley (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- William Irvine (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 8 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Bedford Venable (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Andrew Moore (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Anthony New (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Carter Bassett Harrison (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Preston (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Walker (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- George Hancock (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Isaac Coles (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Jr. (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Heath (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Nicholas (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- John Page (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Neville (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Josiah Parker (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Richard Bland Lee (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Rutherford (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Griffin (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Claiborne (Anti-Administration) — YEA
- William Branch Giles (Anti-Administration) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Official records
Every vote, by name — 106 members
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