The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
ON ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION AS AMENDED, DIRECTING THE PRINTER OF THE SENATE TO PRINT FORTY THOUSAND ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE AGRICULTURAL PORTION OF THE PATENT OFFICE REPORTS, WITH THE PLATES ACCOMPANYING IT…
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 18 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 3 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
- 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no
- New York: 2 yes, 0 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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, 2 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 2 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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, 2 no
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William King Sebastian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKendree Gwin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 1 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Middleton Clayton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — YEA
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
Iowa 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Pettit (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — YEA
- Edward Everett (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — YEA
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NAY
- William Pitt Fessenden (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rice Atchison (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Sheffie Geyer (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jared Warner Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Norris Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 2 yes, 0 no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — YEA
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Wade (Whig) — YEA
- Salmon Portland Chase (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Tillinghast James (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Allen (Democrat) — YEA
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah James Evans (Democrat) — YEA
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — YEA
- 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 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — YEA
Wisconsin 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Dodge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Pigeon Walker (Democrat) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 60 members
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