The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO SUSPEND EXECUTION OF THE ORDER ASSIGNING EVERY FRIDAY FOR CONSIDERATION OF PRIVATE BILLS FOR THE DAY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RESUMING CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 43 (AUG. 30, 1852, 10-STAT. L. 41), MAKING APPROPRIATI…
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 13 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 7 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 0 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, 1 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, 2 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 0 no
- California: 1 yes, 1 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, 1 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 2 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 1 no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 1 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 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 1 yes, 1 no
Arkansas 1 yes, 1 no
California 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — YEA
- Truman Smith (Whig) — YEA
Delaware 2 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NAY
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — YEA
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NAY
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, 1 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pierre Soulé (Democrat) — NAY
- Solomon Weathersbee Downs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 1 yes, 1 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NAY
- John Davis (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — NAY
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NAY
- 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) — YEA
- Willie Person Mangum (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Parker Hale (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Norris Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no
New York 0 yes, 2 no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NAY
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Tillinghast James (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hopkins Clarke (Whig) — NAY
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — YEA
- John Bell (Whig) — YEA
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — YEA
- William Upham (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 62 members
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