The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION TO RATIFY THE ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CONVENTION BETWEEN THE U. S. AND THE YAUCTON TRIBE OF SIOUX OR DACATAH INDIANS. SIGNED APRIL 19TH, 1858.
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 senators voted
In 10 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 7 every one voted no; 7 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 0 yes, 2 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 2 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William King Sebastian (Democrat) — YEA
California 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Dixon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican) — NAY
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Waltham Bates (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Levy Yulee (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — YEA
Georgia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Iverson Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 1 yes, 1 no
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Lyman Trumbull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Burton Thompson (American) — NOT VOTING
- John Jordan Crittenden (American) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Slidell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Judah Philip Benjamin (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilson (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Kennedy (American) — NOT VOTING
- James Alfred Pearce (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pitt Fessenden (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Mower Rice (Democrat) — YEA
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- Jefferson Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Clark (Republican) — NAY
- John Parker Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wright (Democrat) — YEA
New York 0 yes, 2 no
Ohio 1 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Simon Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bigler (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 1 yes, 1 no
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Bell (American) — NAY
Texas 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Houston (American) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Collamer (Republican) — NAY
- Solomon Foot (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Durkee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Rood Doolittle (Republican) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 63 members
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