The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO TABLE A RESOLUTION THAT MR. HOUSTON, ALA., BE CENSURED FOR DISORDERLY WORDS IN DEBATE. (P. 2549)
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 7 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 13 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, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 3 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 3 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, 2 no
- Illinois: 3 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 5 yes, 20 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 10 no, 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 16 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 3 yes, 18 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 4 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: 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 3 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 7 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 7 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 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 4 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Clopton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Smith Houston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Adams Stallworth (Democrat) — YEA
- James Lawrence Pugh (Democrat) — YEA
- Sydenham Moore (Democrat) — YEA
- Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Rust (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Carmichael Hindman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Lewis Scott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Chilton Burch (Democrat) — YEA
Connecticut 0 yes, 4 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Sydney Hawkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 7 yes, 1 no
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Ryan Curtis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Vandever (Republican) — NAY
Illinois 3 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Carroll Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Logan (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander McClernand (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NAY
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — NAY
- Philip Bond Fouke (Democrat) — YEA
- William Kellogg (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 2 yes, 7 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Porter (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Case (Republican) — NAY
- David Kilgore (Republican) — NAY
- James Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — NAY
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NAY
- William McKee Dunn (Republican) — NAY
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 3 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Bristow (Opposition) — NAY
- Green Adams (Opposition) — NAY
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — YEA
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Young Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Laban Theodore Moore (Opposition) — NAY
- Robert Mallory (Opposition) — NAY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — NAY
- William Clayton Anderson (Opposition) — NAY
- William Emmett Simms (Democrat) — YEA
Louisiana 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Edward Bouligny (American) — YEA
- John Morgan Landrum (Democrat) — YEA
- Miles Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Green Davidson (Democrat) — NAY
Massachusetts 0 yes, 10 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — NAY
- Anson Burlingame (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Delano (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Francis Adams (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Russell Train (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — NAY
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NAY
- James Buffinton (Republican) — NAY
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Edwin Hanson Webster (American) — YEA
- George Wurtz Hughes (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Winter Davis (American) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Michael Kunkel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Augustus Stewart (Democrat) — YEA
- James Morrison Harris (American) — YEA
Maine 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Eton Somes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ezra Bartlett French (Republican) — NAY
- Freeman Harlow Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- John Jasiel Perry (Republican) — NAY
- Stephen Clark Foster (Republican) — NAY
Michigan 0 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 2 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Craig (Democrat) — NAY
- John Bullock Clark (Democrat) — NAY
- John Richard Barret (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Noell (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Hughes Woodson (American) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- John Jones McRae (Democrat) — YEA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Barksdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Burton Craige (Democrat) — YEA
- James Madison Leach (Opposition) — NAY
- John Adams Gilmer (Opposition) — NAY
- Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Ruffin (Democrat) — YEA
- Warren Winslow (Democrat) — YEA
- William Nathan Harrell Smith (Opposition) — NAY
- Zebulon Baird Vance (Opposition) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 3 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 5 yes, 20 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Ely (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Wells (Republican) — NAY
- Augustus Frank (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Lewis Beale (Republican) — NAY
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — YEA
- Elbridge Gerry Spaulding (Republican) — NAY
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — NAY
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — NAY
- George Briggs (Republican) — YEA
- George William Palmer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Francis Clark (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NAY
- James Bedell McKean (Republican) — NAY
- James Harper Graham (Republican) — NAY
- James Humphrey (Republican) — NAY
- John Bussing Haskin (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hazard Reynolds (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NAY
- Luther Cullen Carter (Republican) — NAY
- Martin Butterfield (Republican) — NAY
- Moses Lindley Lee (Republican) — NAY
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — NAY
- Rodolphus Holland Duell (Republican) — NAY
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Mainville Burroughs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Barr (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — YEA
- William Irvine (Republican) — NAY
- William Scheuneman Kenyon (Republican) — NAY
Ohio 1 yes, 16 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — NAY
- Carey Allen Trimble (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Drake Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Laird Vallandigham (Democrat) — NAY
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Wade (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — YEA
- Harrison Gray Otis Blake (Republican) — NAY
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — NAY
- John Addison Gurley (Republican) — NAY
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- John Carey (Republican) — NAY
- John Hutchins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sidney Edgerton (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Clarke Theaker (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Corwin (Republican) — NAY
- William Allen (Democrat) — NAY
- William Helmick (Republican) — NAY
- William Howard (Democrat) — NAY
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
- Lansing Stout (Democrat) — YEA
Pennsylvania 3 yes, 18 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Junkin (Republican) — NAY
- Chapin Hall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — NAY
- Edward McPherson (Republican) — NAY
- Elijah Babbitt (Republican) — NAY
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — NAY
- George Whitfield Scranton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Longnecker (Republican) — NAY
- James Hepburn Campbell (Republican) — NAY
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — NAY
- James Tracy Hale (Republican) — NAY
- John Covode (Republican) — NAY
- John Hickman (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NAY
- John Paul Verree (Republican) — NAY
- John Schwartz (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — YEA
- John Weinland Killinger (Republican) — NAY
- John Wood (Republican) — NAY
- Robert McKnight (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Steel Blair (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — YEA
- William Millward (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NAY
- William Stewart (Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Emerson Etheridge (Opposition) — NAY
- Horace Maynard (Opposition) — NOT VOTING
- James Houston Thomas (Democrat) — YEA
- James Minor Quarles (Opposition) — YEA
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — YEA
- Reese Bowen Brabson (Opposition) — YEA
- Robert Hopkins Hatton (Opposition) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson (Opposition) — NAY
- William Brickly Stokes (Opposition) — NAY
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 7 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — YEA
- Alexander Robinson Boteler (Opposition) — YEA
- Daniel Coleman de Jarnette (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elbert Sevier Martin (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Thomas Harris (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — YEA
- Roger Atkinson Pryor (Democrat) — YEA
- Shelton Farrar Leake (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — YEA
- William Smith (Democrat) — YEA
Vermont 0 yes, 3 no
Wisconsin 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Cadwallader Colden Washburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Hathaway Larrabee (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Fox Potter (Republican) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 238 members
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