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Recorded vote
TO CONCUR IN AN AMEMDMENT TO H.R. 97 (10 STAT 583, 8/5/54) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NAVAL SERVICE FOR FISCAL 1855, SAID AMENDMENT ADDS THE PROVISO THAT AMONG THE PROVISIONS FOR COMMISSIONED, WARRANT AND P…
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What was on the floor
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Every roll call on H.R. 97
How each state's members voted
In 8 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 8 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: 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 2 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: 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 3 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 3 no
- New York: 16 yes, 3 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 9 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 5 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 10 yes, 5 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 7 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 4 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or 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
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, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Allen Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alexander McDougall (Democrat) — NAY
- Milton Slocum Latham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Colin Macrae Ingersoll (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Timothy Pratt (Democrat) — YEA
- Nathan Belcher (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Origen Storrs Seymour (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Read Riddle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Holt Colquitt (Democrat) — NAY
- David Addison Reese (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- David Jackson Bailey (Democrat) — NAY
- Elijah Webb Chastain (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — NAY
- Junius Hillyer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Barton Wade Dent (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
- Bernhart Henn (Democrat) — YEA
- John Parsons Cook (Whig) — YEA
Illinois 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Whig) — YEA
- James Cameron Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Knox (Whig) — YEA
- Jesse Olds Norton (Whig) — YEA
- John Wentworth (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Whig) — YEA
- William Alexander Richardson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Bissell (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Allen (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 5 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Harlan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Cyrus Livingston Dunham (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Mace (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henry Lane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Norman Eddy (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Wilson Parker (Whig) — YEA
- Smith Miller (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Andrews Hendricks (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 1 yes, 6 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Edwards Grey (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Sidney Hill (Whig) — NAY
- James Stone Chrisman (Democrat) — NAY
- John Cabell Breckinridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NAY
- Leander Martin Cox (Whig) — NAY
- Linn Boyd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Presley Underwood Ewing (Whig) — NAY
- Richard Henry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Preston (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Perkins Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Roland Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore Gaillard Hunt (Whig) — NAY
- William Dunbar (Democrat) — NAY
Massachusetts 9 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander de Witt (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Wentworth Upham (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Dickinson (Whig) — YEA
- John Wiley Edmands (Whig) — YEA
- John Zacheus Goodrich (Whig) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hurd Walley (Whig) — YEA
- Samuel Leonard Crocker (Whig) — YEA
- Tappan Wentworth (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Whig) — YEA
- William Appleton (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Rhodes Sollers (Whig) — YEA
- Henry May (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Shower (Democrat) — YEA
- John Rankin Franklin (Whig) — NAY
- Joshua van Sant (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ephraim Wilder Farley (Whig) — NAY
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Whig) — YEA
- Moses Macdonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Mayall (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Page Benson (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas James Duncan Fuller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 3 no
Missouri 0 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred William Lamb (Democrat) — NAY
- James Johnson Lindley (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Gaines Miller (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — NAY
- Mordecai Oliver (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Caruthers (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas Hart Benton (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Boone Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — YEA
- Wiley Pope Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- William Barksdale (Democrat) — NAY
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 0 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Burton Craige (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Marchmore Shaw (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Kerr Jr. (Whig) — NAY
- Richard Clauselle Puryear (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Sion Hart Rogers (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Ruffin (Democrat) — NAY
- William Shepperd Ashe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 16 yes, 3 no, 13 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Oliver (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Pringle (Whig) — YEA
- Bishop Perkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Caleb Lyon (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hughes (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Terryll Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- Davis Carpenter (Whig) — YEA
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Whig) — YEA
- Francis Brockholst Cutting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Abel Simmons (Whig) — YEA
- George Hastings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Chase (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Gerrit Smith (Free Soil) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Whig) — YEA
- Hiram Walbridge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Maurice (Democrat) — YEA
- Jared Valentine Peck (Democrat) — YEA
- John James Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Walsh (Democrat) — NAY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Whig) — YEA
- Peter Rowe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Wheeler Peckham (Democrat) — YEA
- Russell Sage (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon George Haven (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Thorn Flagler (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas William Cumming (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Adams Walker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Marcy Tweed (Democrat) — NAY
- William Murray (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 12 yes, 2 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Whig) — YEA
- Alfred Peck Edgerton (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Ellison (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Stuart (Democrat) — YEA
- David Tiernan Disney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edson Baldwin Olds (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Ball (Whig) — YEA
- Edward Wade (Free Soil) — YEA
- Frederick William Green (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Bliss (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harvey Hull Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lampkin Taylor (Whig) — NAY
- John Scott Harrison (Whig) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Free Soil) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Whig) — YEA
- Matthias H. Nichols (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Bledso Corwin (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Ritchey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Dell Lindsley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Robinson Sapp (Whig) — YEA
- Wilson Shannon (Democrat) — NAY
Pennsylvania 10 yes, 5 no, 10 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) — NOT VOTING
- Hendrick Bradley Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Isaac Ellmaker Hiester (Whig) — YEA
- James Gamble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Dick (Whig) — YEA
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McCulloch (Whig) — YEA
- John McNair (Democrat) — NAY
- John Robbins (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Ripley Chandler (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Carver Trout (Democrat) — YEA
- Ner Middleswarth (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Augustus Bridges (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Lyon Russell (Whig) — YEA
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Marshall Howe (Whig) — YEA
- William Everhart (Whig) — YEA
- William Henry Kurtz (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Witte (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 4 no
Tennessee 1 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Ready (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Emerson Etheridge (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (Whig) — NAY
- Frederick Perry Stanton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Nathaniel Green Taylor (Whig) — NAY
- Robert Malone Bugg (Whig) — NAY
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Cullom (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery Churchwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Washington Smyth (Democrat) — NAY
- Peter Hansbrough Bell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 0 yes, 7 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Fayette McMullen (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Henry Bayly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NAY
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Zedekiah Kidwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alvah Sabin (Whig) — YEA
- Andrew Tracy (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- James Meacham (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 3 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 233 members
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