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TO CONCUR IN THE 22ND AMENDMENT MADE IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE TO H.R. 48, (10 STAT 546, AUG. 4, 1854), THE CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATIONS BILL FOR FISCAL 1855. THE AMENDMENT PROVIDES FOR THE COMPLETION O…
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Every roll call on H.R. 48
How each state's members voted
In 9 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 10 every one voted no; 11 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 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: 3 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 10 yes, 6 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 4 yes, 0 no, 7 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 11 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 9 yes, 5 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or 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: 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 2 no
- Florida: 0 yes, 1 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 3 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Allen Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alexander McDougall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Milton Slocum Latham (Democrat) — YEA
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Timothy Pratt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Belcher (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Origen Storrs Seymour (Democrat) — NAY
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat) — NAY
- David Addison Reese (Whig) — NAY
- David Jackson Bailey (Democrat) — NAY
- Elijah Webb Chastain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — NAY
- Junius Hillyer (Democrat) — NAY
- William Barton Wade Dent (Democrat) — NAY
Iowa 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Bernhart Henn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Parsons Cook (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 3 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Whig) — YEA
- James Cameron Allen (Democrat) — NAY
- James Knox (Whig) — NAY
- Jesse Olds Norton (Whig) — NAY
- John Wentworth (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Whig) — YEA
- William Alexander Richardson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Bissell (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Allen (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 2 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Harlan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Mace (Democrat) — YEA
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain (Democrat) — NAY
- James Henry Lane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- Norman Eddy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Wilson Parker (Whig) — YEA
- Smith Miller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat) — NAY
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NAY
Kentucky 4 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Edwards Grey (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Sidney Hill (Whig) — YEA
- James Stone Chrisman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cabell Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leander Martin Cox (Whig) — YEA
- Linn Boyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Presley Underwood Ewing (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Preston (Whig) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- John Perkins Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Roland Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Dunbar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 4 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander de Witt (Free Soil) — YEA
- Charles Wentworth Upham (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Dickinson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Wiley Edmands (Whig) — YEA
- John Zacheus Goodrich (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hurd Walley (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Tappan Wentworth (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Appleton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 1 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Henry May (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Shower (Democrat) — NAY
- John Rankin Franklin (Whig) — YEA
- Joshua van Sant (Democrat) — NAY
- William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ephraim Wilder Farley (Whig) — YEA
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Whig) — YEA
- Moses Macdonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Mayall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Page Benson (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller (Democrat) — YEA
Michigan 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Addison Noble (Democrat) — YEA
- David Stuart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hestor Lockhart Stevens (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Clark (Democrat) — YEA
Missouri 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred William Lamb (Democrat) — NAY
- James Johnson Lindley (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Gaines Miller (Whig) — YEA
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Mordecai Oliver (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Caruthers (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Boone Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wiley Pope Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- William Barksdale (Democrat) — NAY
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Washington Kittredge (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Morrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Hibbard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Cumming McWhorter Pennington (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Skelton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Vail (Democrat) — NAY
- Nathan Taylor Stratton (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Lilly (Democrat) — NAY
New York 10 yes, 6 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Oliver (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Pringle (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Bishop Perkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Caleb Lyon (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hughes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Terryll Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Davis Carpenter (Whig) — NAY
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Whig) — YEA
- Francis Brockholst Cutting (Democrat) — YEA
- George Abel Simmons (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- George Hastings (Democrat) — NAY
- George William Chase (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Gerrit Smith (Free Soil) — YEA
- Gilbert Dean (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Bennett (Whig) — YEA
- Hiram Walbridge (Democrat) — YEA
- James Maurice (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jared Valentine Peck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- John Wheeler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Walsh (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Whig) — YEA
- Peter Rowe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Russell Sage (Whig) — YEA
- Solomon George Haven (Whig) — YEA
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Thorn Flagler (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas William Cumming (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Adams Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Marcy Tweed (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Murray (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 11 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Whig) — YEA
- Alfred Peck Edgerton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Andrew Ellison (Democrat) — NAY
- Andrew Stuart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Tiernan Disney (Democrat) — YEA
- Edson Baldwin Olds (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Ball (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Wade (Free Soil) — YEA
- Frederick William Green (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Bliss (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harvey Hull Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Lampkin Taylor (Whig) — YEA
- John Scott Harrison (Whig) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Free Soil) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Matthias H. Nichols (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Bledso Corwin (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Ritchey (Democrat) — NAY
- William Dell Lindsley (Democrat) — YEA
- William Robinson Sapp (Whig) — YEA
- Wilson Shannon (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 9 yes, 5 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Asa Packer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Drum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis (Democrat) — YEA
- Christian Markle Straub (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Ritchie (Whig) — YEA
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Democrat) — NAY
- Hendrick Bradley Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Gamble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Dick (Whig) — YEA
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NAY
- John McCulloch (Whig) — NAY
- John McNair (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Robbins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Ripley Chandler (Whig) — YEA
- Michael Carver Trout (Democrat) — NAY
- Ner Middleswarth (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Lyon Russell (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Marshall Howe (Whig) — YEA
- William Everhart (Whig) — YEA
- William Henry Kurtz (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Witte (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NAY
- John McQueen (Democrat) — NAY
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Preston Smith Brooks (Democrat) — NAY
- William Aiken (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Ready (Whig) — NAY
- Emerson Etheridge (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (Whig) — YEA
- Frederick Perry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Nathaniel Green Taylor (Whig) — NAY
- Robert Malone Bugg (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- William Cullom (Whig) — YEA
- William Montgomery Churchwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 2 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NAY
- Fayette McMullen (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — YEA
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NAY
- William Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- Zedekiah Kidwell (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alvah Sabin (Whig) — YEA
- Andrew Tracy (Whig) — YEA
- James Meacham (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ben C. Eastman (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Wells Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John B. Macy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 234 members
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