The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Senate recorded vote (30th Congress) · August 12, 1848
H.R. 201
Recorded vote
TO ADJOURN, DURING DISCUSSION OF H.R. 201.
Procedural
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. 201
The map
How each state's senators voted
In 8 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 16 every one voted no; 2 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 1 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, 2 no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no
- New York: 0 yes, 2 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no
- South Carolina: 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 1 no
- Florida: 2 yes, 0 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Dixon Hall Lewis (Democrat) — YEA
- William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Middleton Clayton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Presley Spruance (Whig) — NAY
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Herschel Vespasian Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Macpherson Berrien (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 2 no
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Allen Hannegan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — NAY
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Metcalfe (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Johnson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon Weathersbee Downs (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Webster (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Davis (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Reverdy Johnson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NAY
- James Ware Bradbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rice Atchison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Stuart Foote (Democrat) — YEA
- Jefferson Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Gordon Atherton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Parker Hale (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no
New York 0 yes, 2 no
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Thomas Corwin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Allen (Democrat) — NAY
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Sturgeon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Simon Cameron (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Caldwell Calhoun (Democrat) — YEA
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hopkins Lacy Turney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (Whig) — NAY
Texas 1 yes, 1 no
Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
- Samuel Shethar Phelps (Whig) — NAY
- William Upham (Whig) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Official records
Every vote, by name — 58 members
Select any member to pull their file.