The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H. R. 42 (APP. 6/14/1858), A BILL TO PROVIDE A LIFETIME PENSION TO MARY A. M. JONES, WIDOW OF BREVET MAJOR GENERAL ROGER JONES, AT THE RATE OF ONE HALF PAY MONTHLY, SO AS TO MAKE INSERTION FOR PAYMENT…
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).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
Every roll call on H.R. 42
How each state's senators voted
In 6 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 17 every one voted no; 3 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, 0 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 1 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 2 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 1 no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 2 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 2 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 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: 0 yes, 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — NAY
- Clement Claiborne Clay Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Ward Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William King Sebastian (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 0 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Dixon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lafayette Sabine Foster (Republican) — YEA
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 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Levy Yulee (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Iverson Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Augustus Toombs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 0 yes, 2 no
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Lyman Trumbull (Republican) — NAY
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Burton Thompson (American) — NOT VOTING
- John Jordan Crittenden (American) — NAY
Louisiana 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Slidell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Judah Philip Benjamin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilson (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 2 no
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pitt Fessenden (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Mower Rice (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Stephen Green (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Trusten Polk (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jefferson Davis (Democrat) — NAY
North Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Settle Reid (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lanier Clingman (Democrat) — NAY
New Hampshire 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Clark (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Parker Hale (Republican) — NAY
New Jersey 1 yes, 1 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Peronneau Hayne (Democrat) — NAY
- James Henry Hammond (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Bell (American) — NOT VOTING
Texas 1 yes, 0 no
Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Murray Mason (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Collamer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon Foot (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Durkee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Rood Doolittle (Republican) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 63 members
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