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Recorded vote
TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R 501 (12 STAT 104, APP. 6/25/1860), MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY CIVIL EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL 1861. (P. 3199-1,2)
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What was on the floor
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Every roll call on H.R. 501
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 15 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: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 3 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 12 yes, 12 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 8 yes, 1 no, 2 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 3 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 8 yes, 4 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 5 yes, 9 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 2 yes, 0 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: 3 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 3 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 0 yes, 10 no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 3 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 7 no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 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 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Avery Burnham (Republican) — YEA
- Dwight Loomis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Woodruff (Republican) — YEA
- Orris Sanford Ferry (Republican) — NAY
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, 7 no, 1 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) — NAY
- Peter Early Love (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. (Opposition) — NAY
Iowa 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel Ryan Curtis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Vandever (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 3 yes, 1 no, 5 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) — NAY
- Owen Lovejoy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Bond Fouke (Democrat) — YEA
- William Kellogg (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 3 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Porter (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Case (Republican) — YEA
- David Kilgore (Republican) — NAY
- James Wilson (Republican) — NAY
- John Givan Davis (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NAY
- John Upfold Pettit (Republican) — NAY
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — NAY
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hayden English (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKee Dunn (Republican) — NAY
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 3 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Bristow (Opposition) — YEA
- Green Adams (Opposition) — NAY
- Henry Cornelius Burnett (Democrat) — NAY
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Young Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Laban Theodore Moore (Opposition) — NAY
- Robert Mallory (Opposition) — YEA
- Samuel Oldham Peyton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Clayton Anderson (Opposition) — NAY
- William Emmett Simms (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Edward Bouligny (American) — YEA
- John Morgan Landrum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Miles Taylor (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Green Davidson (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 8 yes, 1 no, 2 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) — NAY
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — YEA
- Eli Thayer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Buffinton (Republican) — YEA
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Maine 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Eton Somes (Republican) — NAY
- Ezra Bartlett French (Republican) — NAY
- Freeman Harlow Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Israel Washburn Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Jasiel Perry (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Clark Foster (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- De Witt Clinton Leach (Republican) — YEA
- Francis William Kellogg (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Waldron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Alanson Howard (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cyrus Aldrich (Republican) — YEA
- William Windom (Republican) — NOT VOTING
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 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- John Jones McRae (Democrat) — YEA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NAY
- Reuben Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Barksdale (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 6 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) — NAY
- Thomas Ruffin (Democrat) — NAY
- Warren Winslow (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Nathan Harrell Smith (Opposition) — NAY
- Zebulon Baird Vance (Opposition) — NAY
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
New York 12 yes, 12 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Baldwin Olin (Republican) — YEA
- Alfred Ely (Republican) — NAY
- Alfred Wells (Republican) — NAY
- Augustus Frank (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Baldwin Sedgwick (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Brooks Hoard (Republican) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Emory Bemsley Pottle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Elias Spinner (Republican) — YEA
- George Briggs (Republican) — NAY
- George William Palmer (Republican) — NAY
- Horace Francis Clark (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — YEA
- James Bedell McKean (Republican) — NAY
- James Harper Graham (Republican) — NAY
- James Humphrey (Republican) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Reuben Eaton Fenton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rodolphus Holland Duell (Republican) — NAY
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Barr (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- William Brown Maclay (Democrat) — NAY
- William Irvine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Scheuneman Kenyon (Republican) — NAY
Ohio 8 yes, 4 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Stanton (Republican) — YEA
- Carey Allen Trimble (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Drake Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Laird Vallandigham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Wade (Republican) — NAY
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harrison Gray Otis Blake (Republican) — YEA
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Addison Gurley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Carey (Republican) — YEA
- John Hutchins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Sidney Edgerton (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Clarke Theaker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Corwin (Republican) — YEA
- William Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- 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 5 yes, 9 no, 10 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Junkin (Republican) — NAY
- Chapin Hall (Republican) — NAY
- Edward Joy Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Edward McPherson (Republican) — NAY
- Elijah Babbitt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Galusha Aaron Grow (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Whitfield Scranton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Clay Longnecker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Hepburn Campbell (Republican) — NAY
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Tracy Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Covode (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hickman (Anti-Lecompton Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Paul Verree (Republican) — NAY
- John Weinland Killinger (Republican) — NAY
- John Wood (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert McKnight (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Steel Blair (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Birch Florence (Democrat) — YEA
- William Harrison Dimmick (Democrat) — NAY
- William Millward (Republican) — YEA
- William Montgomery (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Stewart (Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 0 yes, 10 no
- Emerson Etheridge (Opposition) — NAY
- Horace Maynard (Opposition) — NAY
- James Houston Thomas (Democrat) — NAY
- James Minor Quarles (Opposition) — NAY
- John Vines Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- Reese Bowen Brabson (Opposition) — NAY
- Robert Hopkins Hatton (Opposition) — NAY
- Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson (Opposition) — NAY
- William Brickly Stokes (Opposition) — NAY
- William Tecumsah Avery (Democrat) — NAY
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Hamilton (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henninger Reagan (Democrat) — YEA
Virginia 3 yes, 5 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin Jenkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Robinson Boteler (Opposition) — YEA
- Daniel Coleman de Jarnette (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elbert Sevier Martin (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- Henry Alonzo Edmundson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Singleton Millson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Thomas Harris (Ind. Democrat) — NAY
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (Democrat) — NAY
- Roger Atkinson Pryor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Shelton Farrar Leake (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- Sherrard Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Stanley Bocock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Smith (Democrat) — NAY
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 1 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 236 members
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