The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY TO INQUIRE AND REPORT WHETHER THE STATES OF KENTUCKY, MARYLAND, AND DELAWARE, NOW HAVE A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
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 5 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 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: 2 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 2 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, 2 no
- Illinois: 9 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 4 no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 8 yes, 7 no, 15 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 7 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 9 yes, 1 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 12 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no
- Missouri: 8 yes, 1 no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 1 yes, 1 no, 3 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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.
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Howard Starkweather (Republican) — YEA
- Julius Hotchkiss (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Dudley Hubbard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Barnum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Anthony Nicholson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Illinois 9 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Clark Harding (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Albert George Burr (Democrat) — NAY
- Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican) — YEA
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — YEA
- Green Berry Raum (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell (Republican) — YEA
- Jehu Baker (Republican) — YEA
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Winans Ross (Democrat) — NAY
- Norman Buel Judd (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) — YEA
Indiana 7 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Dana Washburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Coburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican) — YEA
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat) — NAY
- Morton Craig Hunter (Republican) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
- William Williams (Republican) — YEA
Kansas 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Sidney Clarke (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Madison Adams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 5 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican) — YEA
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Ginery Twichell (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — NAY
- John Denison Baldwin (Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — YEA
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Dawes Eliot (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — NAY
Maryland 1 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Phelps (Conservative) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Thomas (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Stone (Democrat) — NAY
- Hiram McCullough (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stevenson Archer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 2 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Augustus Pike (Republican) — YEA
- James Gillespie Blaine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Andrew Peters (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Lynch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sidney Perham (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Austin Blair (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Upson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Cortez Beaman (Republican) — YEA
- John Fletcher Driggs (Republican) — YEA
- Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas White Ferry (Republican) — NAY
Minnesota 0 yes, 2 no
Missouri 8 yes, 1 no
- Benjamin Franklin Loan (Republican) — YEA
- Carman Adam Newcomb (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Anderson (Republican) — YEA
- John Forbes Benjamin (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Jackson Gravely (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Washington McClurg (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Estes Noell (Democrat) — NAY
- William Anderson Pile (Republican) — YEA
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no
- John Taffe (Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Fletcher Stevens (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Benton (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Hart Ela (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Haight (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Sitgreaves (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Armstrong Halsey (Republican) — YEA
- John Hill (Republican) — YEA
- William Moore (Republican) — YEA
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delos Rodeyn Ashley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 8 yes, 7 no, 15 did not vote yes or no
- Addison Henry Laflin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Burt van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Calvin Tilden Hulburd (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Demas Barnes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dennis McCarthy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Ward (Republican) — YEA
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — YEA
- James Brooks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Marvin (Republican) — NAY
- James Morgan Humphrey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Augustus Griswold (Republican) — NAY
- John Charles Churchill (Republican) — YEA
- John Fox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NAY
- John Morrissey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Winthrop Chanler (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis Selye (Ind. Republican) — NAY
- Orange Ferriss (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Taber (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Medad Pomeroy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Cornell (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Elliott Stewart (Conservative Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Craig Fields (Republican) — YEA
- William Erigena Robinson (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Robertson (Republican) — NAY
- William Slosson Lincoln (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 9 yes, 1 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Eggleston (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Cornelius Springer Hamilton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ephraim Ralph Eckley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Morgan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Mitchell Ashley (Republican) — YEA
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Thomas Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Welker (Republican) — YEA
- Philadelph van Trump (Democrat) — NAY
- Ralph Pomeroy Buckland (Republican) — YEA
- Reader Wright Clarke (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — YEA
- Rufus Paine Spalding (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Shellabarger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Tobias Avery Plants (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- William Mungen (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rufus Mallory (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 12 yes, 5 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Adam John Glossbrenner (Democrat) — NAY
- Benjamin Markley Boyer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Caleb Newbold Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Myers van Auken (Democrat) — NAY
- Darwin Asahel Finney (Republican) — YEA
- George Funston Miller (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Van Eman Lawrence (Republican) — NAY
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Lutz Cake (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kennedy Moorhead (Republican) — YEA
- James Lawrence Getz (Democrat) — NAY
- John Covode (Republican) — YEA
- John Martin Broomall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Fowler Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Thaddeus Stevens (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Ulysses Mercur (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Koontz (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Enoch Woodbridge (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Luke Potter Poland (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Worthington Curtis Smith (Republican) — NAY
Wisconsin 2 yes, 4 no
West Virginia 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Every vote, by name — 171 members
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