The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO SUSPEND RULES SO AS TO INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION THAT W.W. PHELPS AND JAMES M. CAVANUAGH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM MINNESOTA, BE PAID COMPENSATION FOR PERIOD OCT. 13, 1857, TO MAY 13, 1858, DATE OF THEIR ADMISSION…
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 6 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 18 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, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 3 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 7 yes, 15 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 7 no, 3 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 4 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 4 yes, 8 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 8 yes, 8 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 3 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 1 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 6 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 5 no
- South Carolina: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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 2 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Lewis Scott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Chambers McKibbin (Democrat) — YEA
Connecticut 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ezra Clark Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Arnold (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sidney Dean (Republican) — NAY
- William Darius Bishop (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 2 yes, 3 no, 3 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) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Hill (American) — NAY
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — NAY
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Pleasant Trippe (American) — NAY
Iowa 1 yes, 1 no
Illinois 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Shaw (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Langrell Harris (Democrat) — YEA
- William Kellogg (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 4 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Case (Republican) — NAY
- David Kilgore (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Bradford Foley (Democrat) — NAY
- James Hughes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Gregg (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 2 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Talbott (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Humphrey Marshall (American) — YEA
- James Brown Clay (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — YEA
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Husband Jewett (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Warner Lewis Underwood (American) — NAY
Louisiana 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Eustis Jr. (American) — NOT VOTING
- John Milton Sandidge (Democrat) — YEA
- Miles Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Green Davidson (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 1 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Anson Burlingame (Republican) — NAY
- Calvin Clifford Chaffee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Chauncey Langdon Knapp (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — YEA
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Buffinton (Republican) — NAY
- Linus Bacon Comins (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Bernard Hall (Republican) — NAY
- Timothy Davis (Republican) — NAY
- William Shapleigh Damrell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Winter Davis (American) — NAY
- Jacob Michael Kunkel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Augustus Stewart (Democrat) — YEA
- James Barroll Ricaud (American) — YEA
- James Morrison Harris (American) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Fielder Bowie (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Jervis Gilman (Republican) — YEA
- Freeman Harlow Morse (Republican) — NAY
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John M. Wood (Republican) — NAY
- Nehemiah Abbott (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Clark Foster (Republican) — NAY
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
Minnesota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Michael Cavanaugh (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Phelps (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- James Craig (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Bullock Clark (Democrat) — YEA
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Caruthers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hughes Woodson (American) — NAY
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson (American) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
North Carolina 2 yes, 5 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — NAY
- James Pike (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Mason Weare Tappan (Republican) — NAY
New Jersey 3 yes, 2 no
New York 7 yes, 15 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — NAY
- Ambrose Spencer Murray (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Phelps Granger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — NAY
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Dodd (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Republican) — NAY
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — YEA
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — NAY
- Erastus Corning (Democrat) — NAY
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — NAY
- George Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Palmer (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Bennett (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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) — NOT VOTING
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — NAY
- John Kelly (Democrat) — YEA
- John Mason Parker (Republican) — NAY
- John Thompson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Judson W. Sherman (Republican) — NAY
- Oliver Andrew Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orsamus Benajah Matteson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- 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 4 yes, 8 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — NAY
- Clement Laird Vallandigham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Wade (Republican) — NAY
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NAY
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- John Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Burns (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Miller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lawrence Washington Hall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Matthias H. Nichols (Republican) — YEA
- Philemon Bliss (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Mott (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Valentine Baxter Horton (Republican) — NAY
- William Lawrence (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Slocum Groesbeck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 8 yes, 8 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Allison White (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (Republican) — YEA
- David Ritchie (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — NAY
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Chapman (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Myer Phillips (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Landy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Lisle Gillis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jehu Glancy Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Ahl (Democrat) — YEA
- John Christian Kunkel (Republican) — NAY
- John Covode (Republican) — NAY
- John Dick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hickman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Rufus Edie (Republican) — NAY
- Owen Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Paul Leidy (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — YEA
- William Lewis Dewart (Democrat) — YEA
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Stewart (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Wilson Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McQueen (Democrat) — YEA
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Milledge Luke Bonham (Democrat) — YEA
- William Porcher Miles (Democrat) — YEA
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — YEA
Tennessee 6 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Galiton Watkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Ready (American) — NAY
- Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (American) — NAY
- George Washington Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- Horace Maynard (American) — YEA
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — YEA
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — YEA
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Guy Morrison Bryan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henninger Reagan (Democrat) — NAY
Virginia 3 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — YEA
- 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) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 3 no
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Billinghurst (Republican) — YEA
- John Fox Potter (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 236 members
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