The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE FURTHER RECONSIDERATION OF THE NOMINATION OF MAJOR LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU TO BRIGADEER GENERAL TO THE FIRST MONDAY IN DECEMBER NEXT.
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 senators voted
In 9 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 10 every one voted no; 3 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 2 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 2 yes, 0 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 1 no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 2 no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 2 no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 0 yes, 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 1 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, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Cole (Republican) — YEA
- John Conness (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 1 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Harlan (Republican) — YEA
- James Wilson Grimes (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 1 yes, 1 no
Indiana 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kansas 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edmund Gibson Ross (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Garrett Davis (Democrat) — NAY
- James Guthrie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 0 yes, 1 no
Maine 2 yes, 0 no
Michigan 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Merritt Howard (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Zachariah Chandler (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Ramsey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Sheldon Norton (Republican) — NAY
Missouri 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Daniel Drake (Republican) — NAY
- John Brooks Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 0 yes, 2 no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Warren Nye (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Morris Stewart (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 2 yes, 0 no
Ohio 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Wade (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 2 no
Rhode Island 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Sprague (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Trotter Patterson (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Smith Fowler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Rood Doolittle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Otis Howe (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 0 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 52 members
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