The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO SUSPEND THE RULES IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE BILL TO PROVIDE FOR INCREASE OF DUTIES ON IMPORTS AS PER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JULY 30, 1846. (P. 1363-3)
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 15 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: 0 yes, 5 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 3 no
- New York: 15 yes, 9 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no
- 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, 2 no
- Indiana: 10 yes, 1 no
- Ohio: 10 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 19 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 3 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: 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 6 no, 6 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 4 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 3 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: 2 yes, 2 no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 3 no, 5 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: 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 0 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Burton Greenwood (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Allen Warren (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Lewis Scott (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Chambers McKibbin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ezra Clark Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Arnold (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 0 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Augustus Romaldus Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Jackson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Lindsay Seward (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Hill (American) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — NAY
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Pleasant Trippe (American) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 0 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Shaw (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Drury Hodges (Democrat) — NAY
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NAY
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- William Kellogg (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 10 yes, 1 no
- Charles Case (Republican) — YEA
- David Kilgore (Republican) — YEA
- James Bradford Foley (Democrat) — YEA
- James Hughes (Democrat) — YEA
- James Madison Gregg (Democrat) — YEA
- James Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- John Givan Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — YEA
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NAY
Kentucky 5 yes, 3 no, 2 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) — YEA
- John Calvin Mason (Democrat) — YEA
- John Milton Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Husband Jewett (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — YEA
- Warner Lewis Underwood (American) — YEA
Louisiana 2 yes, 2 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) — NAY
- Robert Bernard Hall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Davis (Republican) — NAY
- William Shapleigh Damrell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 5 yes, 1 no
Maine 0 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 1 yes, 3 no
Minnesota 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Michael Cavanaugh (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Phelps (Democrat) — YEA
Missouri 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- James Craig (Democrat) — YEA
- John Bullock Clark (Democrat) — YEA
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Caruthers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hughes Woodson (American) — YEA
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson (American) — YEA
Mississippi 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- John Jones McRae (Democrat) — NAY
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- William Barksdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 0 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Pike (Republican) — NAY
- Mason Weare Tappan (Republican) — NAY
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no
New York 15 yes, 9 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — YEA
- Ambrose Spencer Murray (Republican) — YEA
- Amos Phelps Granger (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — NAY
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Dodd (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Barber Morgan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — YEA
- Erastus Corning (Democrat) — YEA
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — NAY
- George Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Palmer (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Bennett (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Charles Goodwin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Francis Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Israel Thompson Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Searing (Democrat) — YEA
- John Bussing Haskin (Democrat) — YEA
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Silas Mainville Burroughs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Barr (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — YEA
- William Fiero Russell (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — NAY
Ohio 10 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harlan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Leiter (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — NAY
- Clement Laird Vallandigham (Democrat) — YEA
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Wade (Republican) — NAY
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Sherman (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Burns (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Miller (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Randolph Cockerill (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Reed Giddings (Republican) — NAY
- Lawrence Washington Hall (Democrat) — YEA
- Matthias H. Nichols (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philemon Bliss (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Mott (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Valentine Baxter Horton (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Slocum Groesbeck (Democrat) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 19 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Allison White (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Anthony Ellmaker Roberts (Republican) — YEA
- David Ritchie (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Chapman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Myer Phillips (Democrat) — YEA
- James Landy (Democrat) — YEA
- James Lisle Gillis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Ahl (Democrat) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Samuel Anderson Purviance (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William High Keim (Republican) — YEA
- William Lewis Dewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — YEA
- William Stewart (Republican) — YEA
- Wilson Reilly (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Lawrence Orr (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John McQueen (Democrat) — NAY
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Milledge Luke Bonham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Porcher Miles (Democrat) — NAY
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — NAY
Tennessee 4 yes, 4 no, 2 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) — NAY
- John Houston Savage (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Axley Smith (Democrat) — NAY
- 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 1 yes, 6 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles James Faulkner (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Hopkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Letcher (Democrat) — NAY
- John Samuels Caskie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Paulus Powell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Osborne Goode (Democrat) — NAY
- William Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 3 no
Wisconsin 1 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 238 members
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