The question
The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Senate recorded vote (35th Congress) · February 19, 1859
Recorded vote
TO TABLE RESOLUTION THAT ON AND AFTER SATURDAY NEXT THE HOUR OF MEETING OF THE SENATE SHALL BE TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON, OF EACH DAY UNTIL OTHERWISE ORDERED. (P.1139, COL.3)
Other
The tally
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
The people
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
The official record
- 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).
The tally
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
The map
How each state's senators voted
In 7 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 12 every one voted no; 10 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, 1 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 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: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 yes, 1 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, 0 no
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 1 yes, 1 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Dixon (Republican) — NAY
- 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, 1 no
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
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 1 yes, 1 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 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilson (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 1 yes, 1 no
Maine 1 yes, 1 no
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
Minnesota 1 yes, 1 no
Missouri 2 yes, 0 no
Mississippi 1 yes, 1 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
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, 1 no
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Delazon Smith (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Lane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Simon Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Bigler (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Fowler Simmons (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Allen (Democrat) — NAY
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Chesnut Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- James Henry Hammond (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no
- Andrew Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Bell (American) — NAY
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Matthias Ward (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Houston (American) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 1 yes, 1 no
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Collamer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Solomon Foot (Republican) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Durkee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Rood Doolittle (Republican) — NAY
Official records
Every vote, by name — 66 members
Select any member to pull their file.