The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND S. 49, APP. 8-4-1854, INCORPORATING THE PIONEER MANUFACTURING CO. OF GEORGETOWN, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, BY ADDING A PROVISION THAT STOCKHOLDERS, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR …
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)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
How each state's senators voted
In 17 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 10 every one voted no; 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 2 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 0 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: 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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — YEA
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John B. Weller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKendree Gwin (Democrat) — YEA
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Truman Smith (Whig) — NAY
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 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — NAY
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 1 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NAY
- Edward Everett (Whig) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NAY
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Maine 1 yes, 0 no
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Rice Atchison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Sheffie Geyer (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no
- Stephen Adams (Democrat) — YEA
North Carolina 0 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 0 no
New York 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NAY
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 2 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 1 no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NAY
- 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 0 yes, 2 no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NAY
- John Bell (Whig) — NAY
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Shethar Phelps (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — NAY
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 59 members
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