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Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 3366, A BILL PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI, BY PROVIDING PLANS FOR A PRACTICAL ROUTE OF A CANAL, AND BY PROVIDING FOR ADVERTISING FOR BIDS ON CONSTRUCTION OF THE C…
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What was on the floor
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Every roll call on H.R. 3366
How each state's members voted
In 10 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 22 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, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 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: 3 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 11 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 6 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 11 yes, 12 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 7 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 7 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 13 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 10 yes, 5 no, 12 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 1 no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 13 no
- Kentucky: 6 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 2 no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 1 no, 2 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: 2 yes, 1 no
- Arkansas: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 7 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 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: 5 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 6 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 2 yes, 0 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander White (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Christopher Sheats (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Hays (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Pelham (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick George Bromberg (Liberal Republican) — NAY
- James Thomas Rapier (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Caldwell (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Humphrey Sloss (Democrat) — NAY
Arkansas 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Asa Hodges (Republican) — YEA
- Oliver P. Snyder (Republican) — YEA
- William Joseph Hynes (Liberal Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Wilshire (Republican) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Clayton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Francis Page (Republican) — YEA
- John King Luttrell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sherman Otis Houghton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 3 yes, 1 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Andrew Sloan (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Richard Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- Hiram Parks Bell (Democrat) — NAY
- James Crawford Freeman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NAY
- Philip Cook (Democrat) — NAY
- Pierce Manning Butler Young (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Henry Whiteley (Republican) — NAY
Iowa 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Rains Cotton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington McCrary (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Otis Pratt (Republican) — YEA
- Jackson Orr (Republican) — YEA
- James Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- James Wilson McDill (Republican) — YEA
- John Adam Kasson (Republican) — YEA
- William G. Donnan (Republican) — YEA
- William Loughridge (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 11 yes, 6 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Franklin Corwin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Granville Barrere (Republican) — YEA
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort (Republican) — YEA
- Horatio Chapin Burchard (Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Clements (Republican) — YEA
- James Carroll Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Stewart Martin (Republican) — YEA
- Jasper Delos Ward (Republican) — NAY
- John Baldwin Hawley (Republican) — YEA
- John Blake Rice (Republican) — NAY
- John McNulta (Republican) — NAY
- John Rice Eden (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Robert McCarty Knapp (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Scott Marshall (Democrat) — NAY
- Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Republican) — NAY
- William Henry Ray (Republican) — YEA
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 7 yes, 4 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Benton Sayler (Republican) — YEA
- James Noble Tyner (Republican) — YEA
- Jasper Packard (Republican) — NAY
- Jeremiah Morrow Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Coburn (Republican) — YEA
- John Peter Cleaver Shanks (Republican) — YEA
- Morton Craig Hunter (Republican) — YEA
- Simeon Kalfius Wolfe (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Jefferson Cason (Republican) — YEA
- William Ellis Niblack (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NAY
- William Williams (Republican) — YEA
Kansas 2 yes, 1 no
Kentucky 6 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles William Milliken (Democrat) — NAY
- Edward Crossland (Democrat) — YEA
- Elisha David Standiford (Democrat) — YEA
- George Madison Adams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Burnie Beck (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Duncan Young (Democrat) — YEA
- John Young Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- Milton Jameson Durham (Democrat) — YEA
- William Brown Read (Democrat) — NAY
- William Evans Arthur (Democrat) — YEA
Louisiana 5 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 7 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alvah Crocker (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Winslow Harris (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (Republican) — NAY
- Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (Republican) — YEA
- George Frisbie Hoar (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Laurens Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Lillie Pierce (Republican) — YEA
- James Buffinton (Republican) — YEA
- John McKeown Snow Williams (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Hooper (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ephraim King Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Stevenson Archer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Swann (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William James O'Brien (Democrat) — YEA
- William Julian Albert (Republican) — NAY
Maine 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Eugene Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Holmes Burleigh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Freeman Hersey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Pierce Frye (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Willard (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Waldron (Republican) — YEA
- Jay Abel Hubbell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Williams Begole (Republican) — NAY
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — YEA
- Moses Whelock Field (Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Ball Bradley (Republican) — YEA
- Omar Dwight Conger (Republican) — YEA
- William Brewster Williams (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 3 yes, 0 no
Missouri 0 yes, 13 no
- Abram Comingo (Democrat) — NAY
- Aylett Hawes Buckner (Democrat) — NAY
- Edwin Obed Stanard (Republican) — NAY
- Erastus Wells (Democrat) — NAY
- Harrison Eugene Havens (Republican) — NAY
- Ira Barnes Hyde (Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Charles Parker (Republican) — NAY
- John Bullock Clark Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John Montgomery Glover (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Anthony Hatcher (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Stone (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 6 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 1 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Moore Waddell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Randolph Thomas (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Clinton Levering Cobb (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Madison Leach (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Brank Vance (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Samuel Ashe (Democrat) — NAY
- William Alexander Smith (Republican) — YEA
- William McKendree Robbins (Democrat) — NAY
Nebraska 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Lorenzo Crounse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Jersey 4 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 11 yes, 12 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Charles St. John (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Clarkson Nott Potter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clinton Dugald Macdougall (Republican) — YEA
- Clinton Levi Merriam (Republican) — NAY
- David Miller de Witt (Democrat) — NAY
- David Wilber (Republican) — YEA
- Eli Perry (Democrat) — NAY
- Ellis Henry Roberts (Republican) — YEA
- Fernando Wood (Democrat) — NAY
- Freeman Clarke (Republican) — YEA
- George Gilbert Hoskins (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Harrison Hathorn (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Joel Scudder (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Boardman Smith (Republican) — NAY
- James Stevenson Smart (Republican) — NAY
- John Daniel Lawson (Republican) — NAY
- John Godfrey Schumaker (Democrat) — NAY
- John Osborne Whitehouse (Democrat) — NAY
- Lyman Kidder Bass (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lyman Tremain (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Schuyler Crooke (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Safford Hale (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Rodolphus Holland Duell (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stewart Lyndon Woodford (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Collier Platt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas James Creamer (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Loomis Sessions (Republican) — YEA
- William Almon Wheeler (Republican) — NAY
- William Esselstyne Lansing (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Lamport (Republican) — YEA
- William Randall Roberts (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 13 yes, 4 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Foster (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Nelson Lamison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Blackstone Banning (Liberal Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy (Republican) — NAY
- Hugh Judge Jewett (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac R. Sherwood (Republican) — YEA
- James Abram Garfield (Republican) — YEA
- James Monroe (Republican) — YEA
- James Wallace Robinson (Republican) — NAY
- John Berry (Democrat) — NAY
- John Quincy Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Laurin Dewey Woodworth (Republican) — YEA
- Lawrence Talbot Neal (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis B. Gunckel (Republican) — YEA
- Lorenzo Danford (Republican) — YEA
- Milton Isaiah Southard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Milton Sayler (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Chappel Parsons (Republican) — YEA
- William Lawrence (Republican) — YEA
- William Peter Sprague (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 10 yes, 5 no, 12 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Herr Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Alexander Wilson Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Carlton Brandaga Curtis (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Albright (Republican) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Ebenezer McJunkin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Glenni William Scofield (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Hiester Clymer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hiram Lawton Richmond (Republican) — YEA
- James Dale Strawbridge (Republican) — YEA
- James Scott Negley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Soloman Biery (Republican) — NAY
- John Alexander Magee (Democrat) — NAY
- John Black Packer (Republican) — YEA
- John Brutzman Storm (Democrat) — NAY
- John Cessna (Republican) — YEA
- John Weinland Killinger (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lazarus Denison Shoemaker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Todd (Republican) — NAY
- Leonard Myers (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Milton Speer (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sobieski Ross (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Washington Townsend (Republican) — NAY
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — YEA
- William Sutton Moore (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Stuart Wallace (Republican) — NAY
- Alonzo Jacob Ransier (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hayne Rainey (Republican) — NAY
- Richard Harvey Cain (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown Elliott (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 7 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Barbour Lewis (Republican) — NAY
- David Alexander Nunn (Republican) — NAY
- Horace Harrison Harrison (Republican) — YEA
- Horace Maynard (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (Republican) — YEA
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — YEA
- John Morgan Bright (Democrat) — YEA
- Roderick Randum Butler (Republican) — YEA
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — YEA
- William Crutchfield (Republican) — YEA
Texas 1 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 0 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Christopher Yancy Thomas (Republican) — NAY
- Eppa Hunton (Democrat) — NAY
- James Beverley Sener (Republican) — NAY
- James Henry Platt Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- John Ambler Smith (Republican) — NAY
- John Thomas Harris (Democrat) — NAY
- Rees Tate Bowen (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Whitehead (Democrat) — NAY
- William Henry Harrison Stowell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 1 no
Wisconsin 6 yes, 2 no
- Alexander Mitchell (Democrat) — YEA
- Alexander Stuart McDill (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Augustus Eldredge (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Grandison Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Gerry Whiting Hazelton (Republican) — YEA
- Jeremiah McLain Rusk (Republican) — YEA
- Joel Allen Barber (Republican) — NAY
- Philetus Sawyer (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 1 yes, 2 no
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