The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADJOURN.
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; 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 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 0 yes, 2 no
California 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Dixon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- 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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Iverson Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Harlan (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Lyman Trumbull (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Graham Newell Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — NAY
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 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pitt Fessenden (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Stuart (Democrat) — NAY
- Zachariah Chandler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Minnesota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Mower Rice (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Stephen Green (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Trusten Polk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Settle Reid (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Clark (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Parker Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Renshaw Thomson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Preston King (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Seward (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Wade (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Ellis Pugh (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Simon Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bigler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Fowler Simmons (Republican) — NAY
- Philip Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Peronneau Hayne (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Henry Hammond (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (American) — NOT VOTING
Texas 1 yes, 0 no
Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Durkee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Rood Doolittle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 63 members
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