The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO TABLE THE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO INFORM THE SENATE WHAT MONEYS HAVE BEEN PAID TO GENERALS SCOTT AND PIERCE AND THE DATE OF THEIR ENTRANCE INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE. (P. 22…
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 10 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 13 every one voted no; 5 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, 2 no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 1 no
- California: 0 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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, 2 no
- Mississippi: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Clemens (Democrat) — NAY
- William Rufus de Vane King (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no
California 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — NAY
- William McKendree Gwin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 1 no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — NAY
- Truman Smith (Whig) — YEA
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — YEA
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Milledge Charlton (Democrat) — NAY
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — NAY
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Whitcomb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — NAY
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 0 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — YEA
- John Davis (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 2 no
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
- Alpheus Felch (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis Cass (Democrat) — NAY
Missouri 1 yes, 1 no
Mississippi 2 yes, 0 no
- Stephen Adams (Democrat) — YEA
- Walker Brooke (Whig) — YEA
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Edmund Badger (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Willie Person Mangum (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Parker Hale (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Norris Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Welsh Miller (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Field Stockton (Democrat) — YEA
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 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 1 yes, 1 no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NAY
- John Bell (Whig) — YEA
Texas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — YEA
- William Upham (Whig) — YEA
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 62 members
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