The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PROCEED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL, S. 371, MAKING FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE SATISFACTION OF VA., BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS, APPROVED AUG. 31, 1852.
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 11 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 13 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: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 1 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, 2 no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Florida: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NAY
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no
California 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Gillette (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 1 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — YEA
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Burton Thompson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
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) — NOT VOTING
- William Pitt Fessenden (Whig) — NAY
Michigan 1 yes, 1 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 2 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Settle Reid (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Edmund Badger (Whig) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jared Warner Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sullivan Wells (Democrat) — NAY
New Jersey 0 yes, 2 no
New York 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Wade (Whig) — NAY
- Salmon Portland Chase (Free Soil) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 0 no
- James Cooper (Whig) — YEA
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Tillinghast James (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Pickens Butler (Democrat) — YEA
- Josiah James Evans (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 1 no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NAY
- John Bell (Whig) — YEA
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
- Lawrence Brainerd (Free Soil) — NAY
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 61 members
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