The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER THE MAIN QUESTION ON H.R. 802, A BILL TO COMPENSATE THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE U. S. STEAMER "KEARSARGE" FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE REBEL PIRATE VESSEL, "ALABAMA". (P. 1210-3)
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)
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.
How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 16 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: 3 yes, 2 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 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: 2 yes, 7 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 9 yes, 14 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 1 yes, 5 no
- Indiana: 2 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 4 yes, 7 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 13 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 2 no
- California: 0 yes, 2 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: 6 yes, 3 no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 1 yes, 2 no, 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: no member on this roll call
- South Carolina: no member on this roll call
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: no member on this roll call
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
California 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Cole (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Bowles Shannon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Higby (Republican) — NAY
Connecticut 2 yes, 2 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nathaniel Barratt Smithers (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 1 yes, 5 no
Illinois 2 yes, 7 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Lausett Knapp (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Murray Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — YEA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Newton Arnold (Republican) — NAY
- James Cameron Allen (Democrat) — YEA
- James Carroll Robinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse Olds Norton (Republican) — NAY
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Rice Eden (Democrat) — NAY
- John Todd Stuart (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- William Joshua Allen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 2 yes, 2 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ebenezer Dumont (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry William Harrington (Democrat) — NAY
- James Addison Cravens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Foster McDowell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Law (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harding (Unionist) — NAY
- Brutus Junius Clay (Unionist) — NAY
- George Helm Yeaman (Unionist) — YEA
- Green Clay Smith (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Grider (Unionist) — NAY
- Lucien Anderson (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Mallory (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Randall (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Wadsworth (Unionist) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — NAY
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Maine 3 yes, 2 no
Michigan 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Minnesota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ignatius Donnelly (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Windom (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 6 yes, 3 no
- Austin Augustus King (Unionist) — NAY
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Henry Taylor Blow (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- James Sidney Rollins (Unionist) — YEA
- John Guier Scott (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Samuel Knox (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Unconditional Unionist) — NAY
- William Augustus Hall (Unionist) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Marcy (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Henry Rollins (Republican) — YEA
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Middleton (Democrat) — NAY
- John Farson Starr (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nehemiah Perry (Democrat) — YEA
- William Gaston Steele (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 9 yes, 14 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Ambrose Williams Clark (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Anson Herrick (Democrat) — NAY
- Augustus Frank (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Henry Winfield (Democrat) — NAY
- Daniel Morris (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- De Witt Clinton Littlejohn (Republican) — NAY
- Dwight Townsend (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Ward (Democrat) — YEA
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Kernan (Democrat) — NAY
- Freeman Clarke (Republican) — NAY
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican) — YEA
- Homer Augustus Nelson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Brooks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Marvin (Republican) — YEA
- John Augustus Griswold (Democrat) — YEA
- John Benedict Steele (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Ganson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Kalbfleisch (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Fowler Odell (Democrat) — YEA
- Orlando Kellogg (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Bruce van Valkenburgh (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Franklin Miller (Republican) — NAY
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Treadwell Davis (Republican) — NAY
- William Radford (Democrat) — NAY
Ohio 4 yes, 7 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Long (Democrat) — NAY
- Chilton Allen White (Democrat) — NAY
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Celeste Le Blond (Democrat) — NAY
- George Bliss (Democrat) — NAY
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — YEA
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — NAY
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — YEA
- James Remley Morris (Democrat) — YEA
- John Franklin McKinney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John O'Neill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Worthington White (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NAY
- Warren Perry Noble (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wells Andrews Hutchins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Edward Finck (Democrat) — NAY
- William Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 13 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (Democrat) — NAY
- Amos Myers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Archibald McAllister (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Denison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Wells Tracy (Ind. Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Tracy Hale (Ind. Republican) — NAY
- Jesse Lazear (Democrat) — YEA
- John Dodson Stiles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bailey (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Russell Thayer (Republican) — YEA
- Myer Strouse (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (Democrat) — NAY
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Miller (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Enoch Woodbridge (Republican) — NAY
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Portus Baxter (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Cobb (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat) — NAY
- Ezra Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Ithamar Conkey Sloan (Republican) — NAY
- James Sproat Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Duncan McIndoe (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Beeson Blair (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- William Gay Brown (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 183 members
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