The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AGREE TO THE AMENDMENT TO THE MILITARY RESOLUTION, WHICH STRIKES OUT THE PROVISION ALLOWING THE PRESIDENT TO REARRANGE CERTAIN NAMED REGIMENTS.
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 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 11 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: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 1 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: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 4 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 8 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 7 yes, 6 no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 6 yes, 1 no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 1 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 6 yes, 11 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 7 yes, 1 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: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 2 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: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 no
- 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.
Connecticut 6 yes, 1 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 1 no
Massachusetts 8 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Dwight Foster (Federalist) — YEA
- Fisher Ames (Federalist) — YEA
- George Leonard (Federalist) — YEA
- George Thacher (Federalist) — NAY
- Henry Dearborn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Reed (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Freeman Jr. (Federalist) — NAY
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Lyman (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Sewall (Federalist) — YEA
- Theophilus Bradbury (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomson Joseph Skinner (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Lyman (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 7 yes, 1 no
- Gabriel Christie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Dent (Federalist) — YEA
- Richard Sprigg Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Sprigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Craik (Federalist) — YEA
- William Hindman (Federalist) — YEA
- William Vans Murray (Federalist) — YEA
North Carolina 0 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Dempsey Burges (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Gillespie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jesse Franklin (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Locke (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nathan Bryan (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — NAY
- William Francis Strudwick (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 3 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Kitchell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Smith (Federalist) — NAY
- Jonathan Dayton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Mark Thomson (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Henderson (Federalist) — YEA
New York 4 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Livingston (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ezekiel Gilbert (Federalist) — YEA
- Henry Glen (Federalist) — YEA
- John Evert van Alen (Federalist) — YEA
- John Hathorn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Williams (Federalist) — NAY
- Jonathan Nicoll Havens (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Cooper (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 7 yes, 6 no
- Albert Gallatin (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Ege (Federalist) — YEA
- John Richards (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Swanwick (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Wilkes Kittera (Federalist) — YEA
- Richard Thomas (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Maclay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Sitgreaves (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley (Federalist) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no
Virginia 6 yes, 11 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Bedford Venable (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Andrew Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Carter Bassett Harrison (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Francis Preston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Hancock (Federalist) — YEA
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Coles (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Madison Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Heath (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Nicholas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Page (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Parker (Federalist) — YEA
- Richard Brent (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Rutherford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Branch Giles (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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