The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
ON ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION, PROVIDING THAT WHEN THE SENATE ADJOURNS TODAY, IT DO SO UNTIL MONDAY NEXT. (P. 1807-2)
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 senators voted
In 19 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 6 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no
- Delaware: 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 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, 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no
California 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKendree Gwin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — YEA
- Truman Smith (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NAY
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Milledge Charlton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — NAY
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — YEA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Whitcomb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Meriwether (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- John Davis (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — YEA
- James Ware Bradbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alpheus Felch (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Cass (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
- Stephen Adams (Democrat) — NAY
- Walker Brooke (Whig) — YEA
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Edmund Badger (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Willie Person Mangum (Whig) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Welsh Miller (Whig) — YEA
- Robert Field Stockton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NAY
Ohio 2 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 0 no
- James Cooper (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Tillinghast James (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hopkins Clarke (Whig) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — YEA
- William Upham (Whig) — YEA
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 62 members
Select any member to pull their file.
