The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO DETERMINE IF THE HOUSE ADHERES TO ITS AMENDMENT TO S. 161 AN ACT FOR THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS TO THE UNION, WHICH AMENDMENT WAS BY MR. MONTGOMERY IN THE NATURE OF SUBSTITUTE. (P. 1436-1,2,1437-1)
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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- 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).
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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.
Every roll call on S. 161
How each state's members voted
In 9 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 11 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 6 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 3 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 3 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: 9 yes, 0 no
- Wisconsin: 3 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 4 yes, 0 no
- New York: 23 yes, 10 no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 11 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 3 no
- Ohio: 19 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 14 yes, 11 no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 2 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, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 13 no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 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: 0 yes, 10 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 7 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 5 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, 4 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 5 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 7 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 8 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 2 no
- Florida: 0 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 0 yes, 7 no
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no
California 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 2 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Florida 0 yes, 1 no
Georgia 0 yes, 8 no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Romaldus Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- James Jackson (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Hill (American) — NAY
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — NAY
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Pleasant Trippe (American) — NAY
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 9 yes, 0 no
- Aaron Shaw (Democrat) — YEA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — YEA
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Langrell Harris (Democrat) — YEA
- William Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 8 yes, 3 no
- Charles Case (Republican) — YEA
- David Kilgore (Republican) — YEA
- James Bradford Foley (Democrat) — YEA
- James Hughes (Democrat) — NAY
- James Madison Gregg (Democrat) — NAY
- James Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — YEA
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NAY
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 1 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Humphrey Marshall (American) — NOT VOTING
- James Brown Clay (Democrat) — NAY
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — NAY
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NAY
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Husband Jewett (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — NAY
- Warner Lewis Underwood (American) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 4 no
Massachusetts 11 yes, 0 no
- Anson Burlingame (Republican) — YEA
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee (Republican) — YEA
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — YEA
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- James Buffinton (Republican) — YEA
- Linus Bacon Comins (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Bernard Hall (Republican) — YEA
- Timothy Davis (Republican) — YEA
- William Shapleigh Damrell (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 6 yes, 0 no
Michigan 4 yes, 0 no
Missouri 1 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Mississippi 0 yes, 5 no
North Carolina 1 yes, 7 no
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 3 yes, 2 no
New York 23 yes, 10 no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — YEA
- Ambrose Spencer Murray (Republican) — YEA
- Amos Phelps Granger (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — YEA
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Dodd (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NAY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — YEA
- Erastus Corning (Democrat) — NAY
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — YEA
- George Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- George William Palmer (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Charles Goodwin (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Francis Clark (Democrat) — YEA
- Israel Thompson Hatch (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Searing (Democrat) — NAY
- John Bussing Haskin (Democrat) — YEA
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — NAY
- John Kelly (Democrat) — NAY
- John Mason Parker (Republican) — YEA
- John Thompson (Republican) — YEA
- Judson W. Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- Oliver Andrew Morse (Republican) — YEA
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Republican) — YEA
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel George Andrews (Republican) — YEA
- Silas Mainville Burroughs (Republican) — YEA
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — NAY
- William Fiero Russell (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 19 yes, 2 no
- Aaron Harlan (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — YEA
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Wade (Republican) — YEA
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — YEA
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Burns (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Miller (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Republican) — YEA
- Lawrence Washington Hall (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Republican) — YEA
- Matthias H. Nichols (Republican) — YEA
- Philemon Bliss (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Mott (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Valentine Baxter Horton (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Slocum Groesbeck (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 14 yes, 11 no
- Allison White (Democrat) — NAY
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (Republican) — YEA
- David Ritchie (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Chapman (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Myer Phillips (Democrat) — NAY
- James Landy (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lisle Gillis (Democrat) — NAY
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Ahl (Democrat) — NAY
- John Christian Kunkel (Republican) — YEA
- John Covode (Republican) — YEA
- John Dick (Republican) — YEA
- John Hickman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Rufus Edie (Republican) — YEA
- Owen Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Leidy (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — NAY
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lewis Dewart (Democrat) — NAY
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — YEA
- William Stewart (Republican) — YEA
- Wilson Reilly (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 0 yes, 10 no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Ready (American) — NAY
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (American) — NAY
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Horace Maynard (American) — NAY
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — NAY
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — NAY
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 0 yes, 2 no
Virginia 0 yes, 13 no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NAY
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NAY
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NAY
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NAY
- William Smith (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 3 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 235 members
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