The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ELECT A CLERK, CHARLES CARRIGAN OF PENNSYLVANIA (CODED "1") VS. EDWARD MCPHERSON, REPUBLICAN OF PENNSYLVANIA (CODED "2").
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 28 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 0 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: 4 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 3 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: no member on this roll call
- 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: 2 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 13 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 6 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 6 yes, 0 no
- New York: 26 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 6 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 11 yes, 0 no
- Ohio: 17 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 23 yes, 0 no
- New Jersey: 5 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: no member on this roll call
- California: 3 yes, 0 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 0 no
- Missouri: 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 9 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: 3 yes, 0 no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 8 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 0 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 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: 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.
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Astley Cooper Rogers (Democrat) — YEA
- Logan Holt Roots (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Boles (Republican) — NOT VOTING
California 3 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Iowa 6 yes, 0 no
Illinois 13 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert George Burr (Democrat) — YEA
- Burton Chauncey Cook (Republican) — YEA
- Ebon Clark Ingersoll (Republican) — YEA
- Elihu Benjamin Washburne (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jesse Hale Moore (Republican) — YEA
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — YEA
- John Baldwin Hawley (Republican) — YEA
- John Breese Hay (Republican) — YEA
- John Franklin Farnsworth (Republican) — YEA
- John Montgomery Crebs (Democrat) — YEA
- Norman Buel Judd (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Shelby Moore Cullom (Republican) — YEA
- Thompson Ware McNeely (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 11 yes, 0 no
- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Julian (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — YEA
- James Noble Tyner (Republican) — YEA
- Jasper Packard (Republican) — YEA
- John Coburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican) — YEA
- Michael Crawford Kerr (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — YEA
- William Williams (Republican) — YEA
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 9 yes, 0 no
- Boyd Winchester (Democrat) — YEA
- George Madison Adams (Democrat) — YEA
- Jacob Shall Golladay (Democrat) — YEA
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — YEA
- James Proctor Knott (Democrat) — YEA
- John McConnell Rice (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Strother Trimble (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Laurens Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- William Northcut Sweeney (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frisbie Hoar (Republican) — YEA
- George Sewel Boutwell (Republican) — YEA
- Ginery Twichell (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- James Buffinton (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks (Republican) — YEA
- Oakes Ames (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — YEA
- William Barrett Washburn (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- Patrick Hamill (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Hambleton (Democrat) — YEA
- Stevenson Archer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Swann (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 4 yes, 0 no
Michigan 6 yes, 0 no
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no
Missouri 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Patterson Dyer (Republican) — YEA
- Erastus Wells (Democrat) — YEA
- Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg (Republican) — YEA
- James Robinson McCormick (Democrat) — YEA
- Joel Funk Asper (Republican) — YEA
- John Forbes Benjamin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Swinfin Burdett (Republican) — YEA
- Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 6 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 1 yes, 0 no
- John Taffe (Republican) — YEA
New Jersey 5 yes, 0 no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 26 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Addison Henry Laflin (Republican) — YEA
- Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner (Republican) — YEA
- Alexander Hamilton Bailey (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Knapp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Clarkson Nott Potter (Democrat) — YEA
- David Smith Bennett (Republican) — YEA
- Dennis McCarthy (Republican) — YEA
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Cowles (Republican) — YEA
- George Woodward Greene (Democrat) — YEA
- Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hamilton Ward (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Augustus Reeves (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Warner Slocum (Democrat) — YEA
- Hervey Chittenden Calkin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Brooks (Democrat) — YEA
- John Ashley Griswold (Democrat) — YEA
- John Charles Churchill (Republican) — YEA
- John Fisher (Republican) — YEA
- John Fox (Democrat) — YEA
- John Godfrey Schumaker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — YEA
- John Morrissey (Democrat) — YEA
- Noah Davis (Republican) — YEA
- Orange Ferriss (Republican) — YEA
- Porter Sheldon (Republican) — YEA
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham (Democrat) — YEA
- Stephen Sanford (Republican) — YEA
- William Almon Wheeler (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Kelsey (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 17 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Fenwick Dickinson (Democrat) — YEA
- Eliakim Hastings Moore (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob A. Ambler (Republican) — YEA
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — YEA
- James January Winans (Republican) — YEA
- Job Evans Stevenson (Republican) — YEA
- John Armor Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- John Armstrong Smith (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Beatty (Republican) — YEA
- John Thomas Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Martin Welker (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Wilson Strader (Democrat) — YEA
- Philadelph van Trump (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Cumming Schenck (Republican) — YEA
- Truman Harrison Hoag (Democrat) — YEA
- William Hanford Upson (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- William Mungen (Democrat) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 23 yes, 0 no
- Calvin Willard Gilfillan (Republican) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Johnson Morrell (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Myers van Auken (Democrat) — YEA
- Darwin Phelps (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Woodward (Democrat) — YEA
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Lutz Cake (Republican) — YEA
- James Lawrence Getz (Democrat) — YEA
- James Scott Negley (Republican) — YEA
- John Black Packer (Republican) — YEA
- John Cessna (Republican) — YEA
- John Dodson Stiles (Democrat) — YEA
- John Moffet (Democrat) — YEA
- John Roberts Reading (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Benton Donley (Republican) — YEA
- Oliver James Dickey (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Jacobs Haldeman (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — YEA
- Ulysses Mercur (Republican) — YEA
- Washington Townsend (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Hepburn Armstrong (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 8 yes, 0 no
- Horace Maynard (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Roberts Hawkins (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Tillman (Republican) — YEA
- Roderick Randum Butler (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Mayes Arnell (Republican) — YEA
- William Brickly Stokes (Republican) — YEA
- William Farrand Prosser (Republican) — YEA
- William Jay Smith (Republican) — YEA
Vermont 3 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 6 yes, 0 no
West Virginia 3 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 194 members
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