The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.J.RES. 1, BY ADDING THAT EACH SOLDIER AND OFFICER WHO ENGAGED IN ANY ACTION BE ENTITLED TO 160 ACRES, REGARD-LESS OF LENGTH OF SERVICE.
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)
What was on the floor
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Every roll call on HJR1
How each state's members voted
In 7 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 7 every one voted no; 14 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: 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 3 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 3 no
- New York: 13 yes, 11 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 1 no, 6 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 15 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 4 no
- California: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 6 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 5 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 2 no, 5 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 3 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 4 no, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 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 1 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander White (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- George Smith Houston (Democrat) — NAY
- James Abercrombie (Whig) — NAY
- John Bragg (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sampson Willis Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- William Russell Smith (Union) — YEA
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Colston Marshall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Walker McCorkle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 4 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
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) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Murphey (Union) — NAY
- David Jackson Bailey (States Rights) — YEA
- Elijah Webb Chastain (Union) — NAY
- James Johnson (Union) — NAY
- Joseph Webber Jackson (States Rights) — NAY
- Junius Hillyer (Union) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Union) — NAY
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
- Bernhart Henn (Democrat) — NAY
- Lincoln Clark (Democrat) — NAY
Illinois 4 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Orlando Bell Ficklin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Sheppard Molony (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Whig) — YEA
- Thompson Campbell (Democrat) — YEA
- William Alexander Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Bissell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Mace (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Graham Newell Fitch (Democrat) — YEA
- James Lockhart (Democrat) — YEA
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Larne Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Brenton (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Wilson Parker (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat) — YEA
- Willis Arnold Gorman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 6 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Addison White (Whig) — YEA
- Benjamin Edwards Grey (Whig) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Richard Henry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ward (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Gordon Penn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Moore (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Aristide Landry (Whig) — YEA
- Louis St. Martin (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 3 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Thompson (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Allen (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- George Thomas Davis (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Mann (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- James Henry Duncan (Whig) — YEA
- John Zacheus Goodrich (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Orin Fowler (Whig) — NAY
- Robert Rantoul Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Appleton (Whig) — YEA
- Zeno Scudder (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Evans (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Hammond (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Stewart Cottman (Ind. Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Johns Bowie (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Yates Walsh (Whig) — YEA
- William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Andrews (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ephraim Knight Smart (Democrat) — NAY
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Appleton (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Macdonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Goodenow (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller (Democrat) — NAY
Michigan 0 yes, 3 no
Missouri 4 yes, 0 no, 1 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) — YEA
- Willard Preble Hall (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 1 yes, 3 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Watkins Venable (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Dockery (Whig) — NAY
- David Outlaw (Whig) — NAY
- Edward Stanly (Whig) — YEA
- James Turner Morehead (Whig) — NAY
- John Reeves Jones Daniel (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Pearson Caldwell (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Whig) — NAY
- William Shepperd Ashe (Democrat) — NAY
New Hampshire 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Amos Tuck (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hazen Peaslee (Democrat) — YEA
- Harry Hibbard (Democrat) — YEA
- Jared Perkins (Whig) — NAY
New Jersey 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Skelton (Democrat) — NAY
- George Houston Brown (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Wildrick (Democrat) — NAY
- Nathan Taylor Stratton (Democrat) — YEA
- Rodman McCamley Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 13 yes, 11 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Maus Schermerhorn (Whig) — YEA
- Abraham P. Stephens (Democrat) — YEA
- Alexander Hamilton Buell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Porter Hascall (Whig) — NAY
- Daniel Terryll Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- David Lowrey Seymour (Democrat) — NAY
- Emanuel Bernard Hart (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick Stanley Martin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- George Briggs (Whig) — YEA
- Gilbert Dean (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Bennett (Whig) — YEA
- Henry Sanford Walbridge (Whig) — YEA
- James Brooks (Whig) — YEA
- Jerediah Horsford (Whig) — NAY
- John Gelston Floyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Hobart Haws (Whig) — YEA
- John Huggins Boyd (Whig) — YEA
- John Lawrence Schoolcraft (Whig) — NAY
- John Wells (Whig) — NAY
- Joseph Russell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Sutherland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leander Babcock (Democrat) — YEA
- Lorenzo Burrows (Whig) — NAY
- Marius Schoonmaker (Whig) — NAY
- Obadiah Bowne (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Preston King (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Robie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon George Haven (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Y. Howe Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Timothy Jenkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Willard Ives (Democrat) — NAY
- William Augustus Sackett (Whig) — YEA
- William Murray (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William W. Snow (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 12 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Harper (Whig) — YEA
- Alfred Peck Edgerton (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Stanton (Whig) — YEA
- Charles Sweetser (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Kellogg Cartter (Democrat) — YEA
- David Tiernan Disney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Eben Newton (Whig) — NAY
- Edson Baldwin Olds (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick William Green (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Henry Busby (Democrat) — YEA
- Hiram Bell (Whig) — NAY
- James Madison Gaylord (Democrat) — NAY
- John Johnson (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- John Lampkin Taylor (Whig) — YEA
- John Welch (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Cable (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Free Soil) — NAY
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Whig) — YEA
- Nelson Barrere (Whig) — YEA
- Norton Strange Townshend (Democrat) — YEA
- William Forrest Hunter (Whig) — NAY
Pennsylvania 15 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Gilmore (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Parker (Democrat) — YEA
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis (Democrat) — NAY
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Dunning Moore (Whig) — YEA
- Henry Mills Fuller (Whig) — YEA
- James Gamble (Democrat) — YEA
- James Xavier McLanahan (Democrat) — YEA
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Morrison (Democrat) — YEA
- John Allison (Whig) — NAY
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — YEA
- John McNair (Democrat) — YEA
- John Robbins (Democrat) — YEA
- John W. Howe (Whig) — NAY
- Joseph Henry Kuhns (Whig) — YEA
- Joseph Ripley Chandler (Whig) — NAY
- Milo Melankthon Dimmick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Stevens (Whig) — YEA
- 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, 1 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 2 no, 5 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) — NOT VOTING
- William Ferguson Colcock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 5 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Whig) — NAY
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- Christopher Harris Williams (Whig) — NAY
- Frederick Perry Stanton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Isham Green Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — YEA
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry (Whig) — YEA
- William Cullom (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Hawkins Polk (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- William Montgomery Churchwell (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 6 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Richmond Holladay (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles James Faulkner (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Fayette McMullen (Democrat) — YEA
- George Western Thompson (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — YEA
- James French Strother (Whig) — NAY
- James Madison Hite Beale (Democrat) — NAY
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — YEA
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Kidder Meade (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Hamlet Averett (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ahiman Louis Miner (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Meacham (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Bartlett Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hebard (Whig) — YEA
Wisconsin 0 yes, 3 no
Every vote, by name — 234 members
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