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TO PASS S. 30 (12 STAT 38, APP. 6/23/1860), DIRECTING THE POSTMASTER GENERAL TO PAY S.M. KNIGHT FOR CARRYING MAIL BETWEEN 1849 AND 1857. (P. 3166-1)
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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).
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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 S. 30
How each state's members voted
In 14 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 7 every one voted no; 8 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: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 3 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 13 yes, 2 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 4 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 10 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 12 yes, 1 no, 12 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 6 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 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: 5 yes, 5 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 8 no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 4 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, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 7 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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 0 yes, 7 no
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 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Avery Burnham (Republican) — YEA
- Dwight Loomis (Republican) — YEA
- John Woodruff (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orris Sanford Ferry (Republican) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Gustavus Whiteley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Sydney Hawkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Jackson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Jones (Democrat) — NAY
- John William Henderson Underwood (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Hill (Opposition) — NAY
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell (Democrat) — NAY
- Martin Jenkins Crawford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Early Love (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. (Opposition) — NAY
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Newton Morris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Carroll Robinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Logan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander McClernand (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Bond Fouke (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 4 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Porter (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Case (Republican) — YEA
- David Kilgore (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Givan Davis (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NAY
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McKee Dunn (Republican) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 1 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Bristow (Opposition) — NAY
- Green Adams (Opposition) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — NAY
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Young Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Laban Theodore Moore (Opposition) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mallory (Opposition) — NAY
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — NAY
- William Clayton Anderson (Opposition) — YEA
- William Emmett Simms (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Edward Bouligny (American) — YEA
- John Morgan Landrum (Democrat) — NAY
- Miles Taylor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Green Davidson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — YEA
- Anson Burlingame (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Delano (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Francis Adams (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Russell Train (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — YEA
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- James Buffinton (Republican) — YEA
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Edwin Hanson Webster (American) — YEA
- George Wurtz Hughes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Winter Davis (American) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Michael Kunkel (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Augustus Stewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Morrison Harris (American) — YEA
Maine 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- De Witt Clinton Leach (Republican) — YEA
- Francis William Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Waldron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Alanson Howard (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- James Craig (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Bullock Clark (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith Phelps (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John William Noell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hughes Woodson (American) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lilbourne Anderson (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 0 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Jones McRae (Democrat) — NAY
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- William Barksdale (Democrat) — NAY
North Carolina 0 yes, 8 no
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
New York 13 yes, 2 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Ely (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Wells (Republican) — YEA
- Augustus Frank (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Lewis Beale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Clark Betton Cochrane (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Edgar Sickles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elbridge Gerry Spaulding (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — YEA
- George Briggs (Republican) — YEA
- George William Palmer (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Francis Clark (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Bedell McKean (Republican) — YEA
- James Harper Graham (Republican) — YEA
- James Humphrey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Bussing Haskin (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Cochrane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hazard Reynolds (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Luther Cullen Carter (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Butterfield (Republican) — YEA
- Moses Lindley Lee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — YEA
- Rodolphus Holland Duell (Republican) — YEA
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Barr (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — NAY
- William Irvine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Scheuneman Kenyon (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 10 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — NAY
- Carey Allen Trimble (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Drake Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Laird Vallandigham (Democrat) — NAY
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Wade (Republican) — YEA
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NAY
- Harrison Gray Otis Blake (Republican) — NAY
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Addison Gurley (Republican) — YEA
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Carey (Republican) — YEA
- John Hutchins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Sidney Edgerton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Clarke Theaker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Corwin (Republican) — YEA
- William Allen (Democrat) — NAY
- William Helmick (Republican) — YEA
- William Howard (Democrat) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Lansing Stout (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 12 yes, 1 no, 12 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Junkin (Republican) — YEA
- Chapin Hall (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Edward McPherson (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Babbitt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — YEA
- George Whitfield Scranton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Longnecker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Hepburn Campbell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Tracy Hale (Republican) — YEA
- John Covode (Republican) — YEA
- John Hickman (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Paul Verree (Republican) — YEA
- John Schwartz (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Weinland Killinger (Republican) — NAY
- John Wood (Republican) — YEA
- Robert McKnight (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Steel Blair (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Millward (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Stewart (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Durant Ashmore (Democrat) — NAY
- John McQueen (Democrat) — NAY
- Laurence Massillon Keitt (Democrat) — NAY
- Milledge Luke Bonham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Porcher Miles (Democrat) — NAY
- William Waters Boyce (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 5 yes, 5 no
- Emerson Etheridge (Opposition) — YEA
- Horace Maynard (Opposition) — YEA
- James Houston Thomas (Democrat) — NAY
- James Minor Quarles (Opposition) — NAY
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Reese Bowen Brabson (Opposition) — NAY
- Robert Hopkins Hatton (Opposition) — YEA
- Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson (Opposition) — YEA
- William Brickly Stokes (Opposition) — YEA
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henninger Reagan (Democrat) — NAY
Virginia 0 yes, 6 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — NAY
- Alexander Robinson Boteler (Opposition) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Coleman de Jarnette (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- Elbert Sevier Martin (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Thomas Harris (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Roger Atkinson Pryor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Shelton Farrar Leake (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Smith (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eliakim Persons Walton (Republican) — YEA
- Homer Elihu Royce (Republican) — YEA
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 237 members
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