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Recorded vote
TO SUSPEND RULES WHICH REQUIRE THAT THE RESOLUTION TO CONTINUE HALF PAY TO CERTAIN WIDOWS AND ORPHANS THROUGH AN ACT OF FEB. 3, 1853, BE CONSIDERED IN COMMITTEE OF WHOLE HOUSE ON STATE OF UNION. (P. 2706-2)
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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Every roll call on HJR36
How each state's members voted
In 11 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 19 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: 2 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 21 yes, 2 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 8 yes, 3 no
- Ohio: 14 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 13 yes, 4 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 4 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 6 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 6 no
- Georgia: 3 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 1 no
- Florida: 1 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 1 yes, 6 no
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Allen Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 2 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 3 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Romaldus Wright (Democrat) — YEA
- James Jackson (Democrat) — NAY
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Hill (American) — NAY
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Pleasant Trippe (American) — YEA
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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) — NAY
- Thomas Langrell Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — YEA
- James Madison Gregg (Democrat) — NAY
- James Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — YEA
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NAY
Kentucky 4 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Humphrey Marshall (American) — YEA
- James Brown Clay (Democrat) — YEA
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — NAY
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — YEA
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Husband Jewett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — NAY
- Warner Lewis Underwood (American) — YEA
Louisiana 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Eustis Jr. (American) — YEA
- John Milton Sandidge (Democrat) — NAY
- Miles Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Green Davidson (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 5 yes, 1 no
Maine 6 yes, 0 no
Michigan 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Mississippi 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
North Carolina 1 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Moore Scales (Democrat) — NAY
- Francis Burton Craige (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Marchmore Shaw (Democrat) — NAY
- John Adams Gilmer (American) — YEA
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Ruffin (Democrat) — NAY
- Warren Winslow (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Pike (Republican) — YEA
- Mason Weare Tappan (Republican) — YEA
New Jersey 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 21 yes, 2 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ambrose Spencer Murray (Republican) — YEA
- Amos Phelps Granger (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — YEA
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Dodd (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — YEA
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Erastus Corning (Democrat) — YEA
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — YEA
- George Taylor (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Palmer (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Charles Goodwin (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Francis Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Israel Thompson Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Searing (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Bussing Haskin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — YEA
- John Kelly (Democrat) — NAY
- John Mason Parker (Republican) — YEA
- John Thompson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Judson W. Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Oliver Andrew Morse (Republican) — YEA
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Republican) — YEA
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel George Andrews (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Mainville Burroughs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — NAY
- William Fiero Russell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 14 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — YEA
- Clement Laird Vallandigham (Democrat) — NAY
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Wade (Republican) — YEA
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Burns (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Miller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lawrence Washington Hall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- William Slocum Groesbeck (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 13 yes, 4 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Allison White (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (Republican) — YEA
- David Ritchie (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Chapman (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Myer Phillips (Democrat) — NAY
- James Landy (Democrat) — YEA
- James Lisle Gillis (Democrat) — YEA
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John Alexander Ahl (Democrat) — YEA
- John Christian Kunkel (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Covode (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hickman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Rufus Edie (Republican) — YEA
- Owen Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Leidy (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — YEA
- William Lewis Dewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Stewart (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Wilson Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 6 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Ready (American) — YEA
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (American) — YEA
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 1 yes, 1 no
Virginia 2 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Smith (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 236 members
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