The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS A RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT THE SENATE ADVISE AND CONSENT TO RATIFICATION OF A TREATY WHICH WAS MADE AT TABLE ROCK, NEAR ROGUE RIVER, IN TERRITORY OF OREGON, ON SEPT. 10, 1853, BETWEEN U.S. AND THE ROG…
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 26 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 no
- New York: 2 yes, 0 no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 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: 2 yes, 0 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: 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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 2 yes, 0 no
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no
California 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — YEA
- Truman Smith (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Middleton Clayton (Whig) — YEA
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — YEA
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- William Crosby Dawson (Whig) — NOT VOTING
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) — YEA
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Slidell (Democrat) — YEA
- Judah Philip Benjamin (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 2 yes, 0 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — YEA
- Edward Everett (Whig) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — YEA
Maine 2 yes, 0 no
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jared Warner Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Moses Norris Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wright (Democrat) — YEA
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 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
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) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (Whig) — YEA
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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Dodge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Pigeon Walker (Democrat) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 60 members
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