The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO SUSPEND RULES AND INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION TO APPOINT A COMMITTEE TO WAIT UPON LOUIS KOSSUTH, AND INTRODUCE HIM TO THE HOUSE.
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 13 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 13 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: 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 4 yes, 0 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: 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 3 yes, 0 no
- New York: 18 yes, 3 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 7 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 15 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 14 yes, 1 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 4 yes, 0 no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 5 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 3 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Colston Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Walker McCorkle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 4 yes, 0 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Read Riddle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Carrington Cabell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Union) — NAY
- Charles Murphey (Union) — NAY
- David Jackson Bailey (States Rights) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Webb Chastain (Union) — YEA
- James Johnson (Union) — NAY
- Joseph Webber Jackson (States Rights) — NAY
- Junius Hillyer (Union) — NAY
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Union) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
- Bernhart Henn (Democrat) — YEA
- Lincoln Clark (Democrat) — YEA
Illinois 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Orlando Bell Ficklin (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Sheppard Molony (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Whig) — YEA
- Thompson Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexander Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Bissell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Allen (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Mace (Democrat) — YEA
- Graham Newell Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Lockhart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Larne Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Brenton (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Wilson Parker (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat) — YEA
- Willis Arnold Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 5 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Addison White (Whig) — YEA
- Benjamin Edwards Grey (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Humphrey Marshall (Whig) — NAY
- James W. Stone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cabell Breckinridge (Democrat) — YEA
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — YEA
- Linn Boyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Presley Underwood Ewing (Whig) — NAY
- Richard Henry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ward (Whig) — YEA
Louisiana 3 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 7 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Thompson (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Allen (Free Soil) — YEA
- George Thomas Davis (Whig) — YEA
- Horace Mann (Free Soil) — YEA
- James Henry Duncan (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Zacheus Goodrich (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Orin Fowler (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Rantoul Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Appleton (Whig) — NAY
- Zeno Scudder (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Evans (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Hammond (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Stewart Cottman (Ind. Whig) — YEA
- Richard Johns Bowie (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Yates Walsh (Whig) — YEA
- William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat) — NAY
Maine 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Andrews (Democrat) — YEA
- Ephraim Knight Smart (Democrat) — YEA
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Whig) — YEA
- John Appleton (Democrat) — YEA
- Moses Macdonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Goodenow (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 3 yes, 0 no
Missouri 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Gilchrist Porter (Whig) — YEA
- John Fletcher Darby (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Gaines Miller (Whig) — YEA
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willard Preble Hall (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Brown (States Rights) — NAY
- Benjamin Duke Nabers (Union) — YEA
- John A. Wilcox (Union) — NOT VOTING
- John D. Freeman (Union) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Watkins Venable (Democrat) — NAY
- Alfred Dockery (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- David Outlaw (Whig) — NAY
- Edward Stanly (Whig) — NAY
- James Turner Morehead (Whig) — NAY
- John Reeves Jones Daniel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Pearson Caldwell (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Whig) — YEA
- William Shepperd Ashe (Democrat) — NAY
New Hampshire 4 yes, 0 no
- Amos Tuck (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Hazen Peaslee (Democrat) — YEA
- Harry Hibbard (Democrat) — YEA
- Jared Perkins (Whig) — YEA
New Jersey 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Skelton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Houston Brown (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Wildrick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Taylor Stratton (Democrat) — YEA
- Rodman McCamley Price (Democrat) — YEA
New York 18 yes, 3 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Maus Schermerhorn (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Abraham P. Stephens (Democrat) — YEA
- Alexander Hamilton Buell (Democrat) — YEA
- Augustus Porter Hascall (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Terryll Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- David Lowrey Seymour (Democrat) — YEA
- Emanuel Bernard Hart (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick Stanley Martin (Whig) — NAY
- George Briggs (Whig) — YEA
- Gilbert Dean (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Sanford Walbridge (Whig) — YEA
- James Brooks (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Jerediah Horsford (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Gelston Floyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Hobart Haws (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Huggins Boyd (Whig) — NAY
- John Lawrence Schoolcraft (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Wells (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Russell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Sutherland (Democrat) — YEA
- Leander Babcock (Democrat) — YEA
- Lorenzo Burrows (Whig) — YEA
- Marius Schoonmaker (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Obadiah Bowne (Whig) — YEA
- Preston King (Democrat) — YEA
- Reuben Robie (Democrat) — YEA
- Solomon George Haven (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Y. Howe Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Jenkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willard Ives (Democrat) — YEA
- William Augustus Sackett (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Murray (Democrat) — YEA
- William W. Snow (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 15 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Harper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Peck Edgerton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Stanton (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Sweetser (Democrat) — YEA
- David Kellogg Cartter (Democrat) — YEA
- David Tiernan Disney (Democrat) — YEA
- Eben Newton (Whig) — YEA
- Edson Baldwin Olds (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick William Green (Democrat) — YEA
- George Henry Busby (Democrat) — YEA
- Hiram Bell (Whig) — YEA
- James Madison Gaylord (Democrat) — YEA
- John Johnson (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- John Lampkin Taylor (Whig) — NAY
- John Welch (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Cable (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Free Soil) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Whig) — NAY
- Nelson Barrere (Whig) — NAY
- Norton Strange Townshend (Democrat) — YEA
- William Forrest Hunter (Whig) — YEA
Pennsylvania 14 yes, 1 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Gilmore (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Parker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis (Democrat) — YEA
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Dunning Moore (Whig) — NAY
- Henry Mills Fuller (Whig) — YEA
- James Gamble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Xavier McLanahan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Morrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Allison (Whig) — YEA
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — YEA
- John McNair (Democrat) — YEA
- John Robbins (Democrat) — YEA
- John W. Howe (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Kuhns (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Milo Melankthon Dimmick (Democrat) — YEA
- Thaddeus Stevens (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Marshal Bibighaus (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Marshall Howe (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Ross (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Kurtz (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Babock Thurston (Democrat) — YEA
- George Gordon King (Whig) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 0 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Armistead Burt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Wallace (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NAY
- John McQueen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Addison Woodward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Aiken (Democrat) — NAY
- William Ferguson Colcock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 2 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Whig) — NAY
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Christopher Harris Williams (Whig) — NAY
- Frederick Perry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Isham Green Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — NAY
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry (Whig) — YEA
- William Cullom (Whig) — NAY
- William Hawkins Polk (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery Churchwell (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Richardson Scurry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Volney Erskine Howard (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 6 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Richmond Holladay (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles James Faulkner (Whig) — YEA
- Fayette McMullen (Democrat) — NAY
- George Western Thompson (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- James French Strother (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Hite Beale (Democrat) — YEA
- John Letcher (Democrat) — YEA
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — YEA
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Kidder Meade (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hamlet Averett (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ahiman Louis Miner (Whig) — YEA
- James Meacham (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Bartlett Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hebard (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ben C. Eastman (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Durkee (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- James Duane Doty (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 234 members
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