The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO MODIFY A RESOLUTION OF FEB. 14, 1855 SO NO FURTHER VOLUME OF CHARTS BE PRINTED FOR DISTRIBUTION BY HOUSE MEMBERS, AND TO SUSPEND PRINTING OF GOVERNOR STEVENS' EXPEDITION, AND TO MODIFY HOUSE RESOLUTION OF A…
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 members voted
In 12 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 12 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: 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 1 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: 6 yes, 3 no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 8 yes, 15 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 7 yes, 4 no
- Ohio: 9 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 8 yes, 8 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 1 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 1 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: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 10 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 4 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 6 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Florida: 0 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 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Allen Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Lewis Scott (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Chambers McKibbin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ezra Clark Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Arnold (Democrat) — NAY
- Sidney Dean (Republican) — NAY
- William Darius Bishop (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Sydney Hawkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 6 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — YEA
- Augustus Romaldus Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Jackson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Hill (American) — NAY
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Pleasant Trippe (American) — YEA
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 6 yes, 3 no
- Aaron Shaw (Democrat) — YEA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NAY
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Langrell Harris (Democrat) — YEA
- William Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 7 yes, 4 no
- Charles Case (Republican) — NAY
- David Kilgore (Republican) — YEA
- James Bradford Foley (Democrat) — YEA
- James Hughes (Democrat) — YEA
- James Madison Gregg (Democrat) — YEA
- James Wilson (Republican) — NAY
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — NAY
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — YEA
- Humphrey Marshall (American) — NOT VOTING
- James Brown Clay (Democrat) — YEA
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — YEA
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — YEA
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Husband Jewett (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — YEA
- Warner Lewis Underwood (American) — YEA
Louisiana 4 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Anson Burlingame (Republican) — NAY
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee (Republican) — NAY
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — NAY
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NAY
- James Buffinton (Republican) — NAY
- Linus Bacon Comins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Bernard Hall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Davis (Republican) — NAY
- William Shapleigh Damrell (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Safford Walbridge (Republican) — NAY
- De Witt Clinton Leach (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Waldron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Alanson Howard (Republican) — NAY
Missouri 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Mississippi 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
North Carolina 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — YEA
- James Pike (Republican) — NAY
- Mason Weare Tappan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 4 yes, 1 no
New York 8 yes, 15 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — NAY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray (Republican) — NAY
- Amos Phelps Granger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Dodd (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Republican) — NAY
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — NAY
- Erastus Corning (Democrat) — YEA
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — YEA
- George Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Palmer (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Bennett (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Charles Goodwin (Republican) — NAY
- Horace Francis Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Israel Thompson Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Searing (Democrat) — YEA
- John Bussing Haskin (Democrat) — NAY
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — YEA
- John Kelly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Mason Parker (Republican) — YEA
- John Thompson (Republican) — NAY
- Judson W. Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Oliver Andrew Morse (Republican) — NAY
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Republican) — NAY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel George Andrews (Republican) — NAY
- Silas Mainville Burroughs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — YEA
- William Fiero Russell (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — NAY
Ohio 9 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — YEA
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Wade (Republican) — NAY
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Burns (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Miller (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lawrence Washington Hall (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Davis Campbell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthias H. Nichols (Republican) — YEA
- Philemon Bliss (Republican) — NAY
- Richard Mott (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Valentine Baxter Horton (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Slocum Groesbeck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 8 yes, 8 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Allison White (Democrat) — YEA
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Ritchie (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — NAY
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Chapman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Myer Phillips (Democrat) — YEA
- James Landy (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lisle Gillis (Democrat) — YEA
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Ahl (Democrat) — NAY
- John Christian Kunkel (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Covode (Republican) — NAY
- John Dick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hickman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Rufus Edie (Republican) — NAY
- Owen Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Leidy (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lewis Dewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Stewart (Republican) — NAY
- Wilson Reilly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nathaniel Briggs Durfee (Republican) — NAY
- William Daniel Brayton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McQueen (Democrat) — YEA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Milledge Luke Bonham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Porcher Miles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — YEA
Tennessee 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Ready (American) — NOT VOTING
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (American) — YEA
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- Horace Maynard (American) — YEA
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — YEA
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 10 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Letcher (Democrat) — YEA
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — YEA
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — YEA
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — YEA
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — YEA
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — YEA
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — YEA
- William Smith (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 234 members
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