The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO CONSIDER THE ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION MADE AND CONCLUDED AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON JUNE 5, 1854, BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE MIAME TRIBE OF INDIANS. (P. 365,378)
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 4 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 0 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, 0 no, 2 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: 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 1 no
- Florida: 1 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no
California 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Gillette (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Middleton Clayton (Whig) — NAY
Florida 1 yes, 1 no
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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — YEA
- John Pettit (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NAY
- Julius Rockwell (Whig) — NAY
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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Pitt Fessenden (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rice Atchison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Sheffie Geyer (Whig) — YEA
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- Stephen Adams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Edmund Badger (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Wade (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Salmon Portland Chase (Free Soil) — YEA
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Cooper (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah James Evans (Democrat) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Texas 1 yes, 1 no
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 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 60 members
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