The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO TABLE S. 214 (14 STAT 299, 7/27/1866), A BILL TO INCORPORATE THE GENERAL HOSPITAL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. THE CHAIR VOTED IN THE NEGATIVE. (P. 4161)
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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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).
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 4 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 7 every one voted no; 12 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, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 3 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 7 yes, 7 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 1 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 3 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 5 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 11 yes, 4 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 2 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 0 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 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: 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- 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 1 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Brandegee (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Champion Deming (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Hubbard (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Larkin Warner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Iowa 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Asahel Wheeler Hubbard (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hiram Price (Republican) — YEA
- James Falconer Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- John Adam Kasson (Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 3 yes, 7 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Clark Harding (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Jackson Kuykendall (Republican) — NAY
- Anthony Thornton (Democrat) — NAY
- Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — NAY
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell (Republican) — NAY
- Jehu Baker (Republican) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Wentworth (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton (Republican) — NAY
- Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 3 yes, 3 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Dumont (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Dana Washburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hanson Farquhar (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hutton Defrees (Republican) — NAY
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat) — YEA
- Ralph Hill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Schuyler Colfax (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Neel Stilwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NAY
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harding (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Burwell Clark Ritter (Democrat) — YEA
- George Sea Shanklin (Democrat) — NAY
- Green Clay Smith (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Grider (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lawrence Strother Trimble (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel McKee (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- William Harrison Randall (Unconditional Unionist) — YEA
Massachusetts 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- John Bassett Alley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — YEA
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 0 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Gwinn Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Edward Phelps (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Thomas (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
- Hiram McCullough (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lewis Thomas Jr. (Unconditional Unionist) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Augustus Pike (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hovey Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Lynch (Republican) — NAY
- Sidney Perham (Republican) — NAY
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Upson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Cortez Beaman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Fletcher Driggs (Republican) — YEA
- John Wesley Longyear (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas White Ferry (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ignatius Donnelly (Republican) — NAY
- William Windom (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 3 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Republican) — NAY
- George Washington Anderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Taylor Blow (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Forbes Benjamin (Republican) — YEA
- John Hogan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Russell Kelso (Ind. Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Estes Noell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Henry Rollins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Gilman Marston (Republican) — YEA
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Jackson Rogers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Sitgreaves (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright (Democrat) — NAY
- John Farson Starr (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Augustus Newell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 1 no
New York 7 yes, 7 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Addison Henry Laflin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Burt van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Goodyear (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry Winfield (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Morris (Republican) — YEA
- Demas Hubbard Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Nelson Hubbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican) — YEA
- Hamilton Ward (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Jarvis Raymond (Republican) — NAY
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — YEA
- James Madison Marvin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Morgan Humphrey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Augustus Griswold (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NAY
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Morgan Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Safford Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roscoe Conkling (Republican) — YEA
- Roswell Hart (Republican) — NAY
- Sidney Tracy Holmes (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Taber (Democrat) — NAY
- Teunis Garret Bergen (Democrat) — NAY
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Treadwell Davis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Augustus Darling (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Earle Dodge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Radford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 5 yes, 7 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Eggleston (Republican) — YEA
- Columbus Delano (Republican) — NAY
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Celeste Le Blond (Democrat) — NAY
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Randolph Hubbell (Republican) — NAY
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- Martin Welker (Republican) — NAY
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (Republican) — NAY
- Reader Wright Clarke (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — YEA
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Shellabarger (Republican) — YEA
- Tobias Avery Plants (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Edward Finck (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Henry Dickey Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 11 yes, 4 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Andrews Barker (Republican) — YEA
- Adam John Glossbrenner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Markley Boyer (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Denison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Vernon Culver (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Funston Miller (Republican) — YEA
- George Van Eman Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — YEA
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — NAY
- John Littleton Dawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — YEA
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Russell Thayer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Myer Strouse (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Johnson (Democrat) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Fowler Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Sydenham Elnathan Ancona (Democrat) — YEA
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ulysses Mercur (Republican) — NAY
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Koontz (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nathan Fellows Dixon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Allen Jenckes (Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 1 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Vermont 1 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Cobb (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat) — NAY
- Halbert Eleazer Paine (Republican) — YEA
- Ithamar Conkey Sloan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philetus Sawyer (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Duncan McIndoe (Republican) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 189 members
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