The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION, NO QUORUM VOTING. (J.P. 626)
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 24 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 5 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: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 3 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 13 yes, 0 no, 20 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 7 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 0 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: 6 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 7 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 10 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 15 yes, 1 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 0 no
- Missouri: 3 yes, 1 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 5 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: 3 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 0 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 0 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 0 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Miller Shelley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Hord Herndon (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Calvin Oates (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- James Kimbrough Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jordan Edgar Cravens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Poindexter Dunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Montague Gunter (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
California 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Campbell Polson Berry (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Horace Francis Page (Republican) — YEA
- Romualdo Pacheco (Republican) — YEA
- William Starke Rosecrans (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Burns Belford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Miles (Republican) — YEA
- James Phelps (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Ransom Buck (Republican) — YEA
- John Turner Wait (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Livingston Martin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Emory Speer (Ind. Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Robison Black (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hugh Buchanan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Judson Claudius Clements (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Job Hammond (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Cook (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Seaborn Reese (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 6 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter (Republican) — YEA
- John Adam Kasson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Calhoun Cook (Democrat) — NAY
- Moses Ayers McCoid (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering (Republican) — YEA
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Updegraff (Republican) — YEA
- William George Thompson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Peters Hepburn (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 11 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican) — YEA
- Dietrich Conrad Smith (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Royal Davis (Republican) — YEA
- James Washington Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Crocker Sherwin (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Lewis (Republican) — YEA
- John Robert Thomas (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Wellington Townshend (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- William Aldrich (Republican) — YEA
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Cullen (Republican) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 7 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Taylor Doxey (Republican) — YEA
- Courtland Cushing Matson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Steele (Republican) — YEA
- Mark Lindsey de Motte (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce (Republican) — YEA
- Stanton Judkins Peelle (Republican) — YEA
- Strother Madison Stockslager (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Reed Cobb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Heilman (Republican) — YEA
- William Henry Calkins (Republican) — NAY
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Kansas 3 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Shelby Willis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Elijah Conner Phister (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Andrew McKenzie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Proctor Knott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Daugherty White (Republican) — YEA
- John Griffin Carlisle (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John William Caldwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oscar Turner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 0 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Chester Bidwell Darrall (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward White Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ezekiel John Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Floyd King (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Randall Lee Gibson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 7 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Norcross (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris (Republican) — YEA
- Eben Francis Stone (Republican) — YEA
- George Dexter Robinson (Republican) — YEA
- John Wilson Candler (Republican) — YEA
- Leopold Morse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Selwyn Zadock Bowman (Republican) — YEA
- William Augustus Russell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Crapo (Republican) — YEA
- William Whitney Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Grant Chapman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Covington (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Milton George Urner (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Milligan McLane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Samuel Lacey (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Willits (Republican) — YEA
- George Washington Webber (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry William Lord (Republican) — YEA
- Jay Abel Hubbell (Republican) — YEA
- John Tyler Rich (Republican) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — YEA
- Oliver Lyman Spaulding (Republican) — YEA
- Roswell Gilbert Horr (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 3 yes, 0 no
Missouri 3 yes, 1 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Gustavus Sessinghaus (Republican) — YEA
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- James Henry McLean (Republican) — YEA
- John Bullock Clark Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry Burrows (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Lowndes Henry Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Linn Clardy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Ford (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Theron Moses Rice (National Greenbacker) — NAY
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Hooker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Hernando De Soto Money (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Roy Lynch (Republican) — YEA
- Otho Robards Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Vannoy Hartrog Manning (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 1 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Moore Scales (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Dowd (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Louis Charles Latham (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Orlando Hubbs (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brank Vance (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Franklin Armfield (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Ruffin Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 1 yes, 0 no
New Hampshire 3 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 3 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Maxwell Robeson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Schenck Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hart Brewer (Republican) — YEA
- John Hill (Republican) — YEA
- Miles Ross (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Phineas Jones (Republican) — YEA
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Williams Cassidy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
New York 13 yes, 0 no, 20 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham X. Parker (Republican) — YEA
- Abram Stevens Hewitt (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Anson George McCook (Republican) — YEA
- Archibald Meserole Bliss (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Rufus Skinner (Republican) — YEA
- Cyrus Dan Prescott (Republican) — YEA
- David Plunket Richardson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ferris Jacobs Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Hiscock (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George West (Republican) — YEA
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — YEA
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight (Republican) — YEA
- John Hammond (Republican) — YEA
- John Hardy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Camp (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hyatt Smith (Independent) — YEA
- John van Voorhis (Republican) — YEA
- Jonathan Scoville (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Mason (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Beach (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Nicholas Nolan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Perry Belmont (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Henry Dugro (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Crowley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Cornell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Waldo Hutchins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Abbott Wood (Republican) — YEA
- William Erigena Robinson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 10 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Addison S. McClure (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Townsend (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Butterworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Le Fevre (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Emanuel Shultz (Republican) — YEA
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Leroy Converse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Geddes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Gibson Atherton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Lee Morey (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Safford Neal (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Monroe Ritchie (Republican) — YEA
- James Sidney Robinson (Republican) — YEA
- John Birchard Rice (Republican) — YEA
- John Peter Leedom (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Rufus Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Lowry Young (Republican) — YEA
- William McKinley Jr. (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 15 yes, 1 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Herr Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Napoleon Brumm (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — YEA
- Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Ermentrout (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — YEA
- Horatio Gates Fisher (Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Miller Campbell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Mosgrove (National Greenbacker) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Findlay Watson (Republican) — YEA
- Morgan Ringland Wise (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Klotz (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Russell Errett (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Fleming Barr (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Henry Miller (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican) — YEA
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Godshalk (Republican) — YEA
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Shadrack Shallenberger (Republican) — YEA
- William Ward (Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- David Wyatt Aiken (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey (Republican) — YEA
- John Hamilton Evins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Smythe Richardson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Smalls (Republican) — YEA
Tennessee 3 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Herman Pettibone (Republican) — YEA
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Bryson Simonton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Gibbs Dibrell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Ford House (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Warner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Robert Moore (Republican) — YEA
Texas 0 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Christopher Columbus Upson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Jones (National Greenbacker) — NAY
- John Henninger Reagan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Olin Wellborn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Fulkerson (Readjuster Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Craighead Cabell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Tankard Garrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Frederick Dezendorf (Republican) — YEA
- John Paul (Readjuster Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Randolph Tucker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Strode Barbour Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Jorgensen (Republican) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Herbert Joyce (Republican) — YEA
- James Manning Tyler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Grout (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Grandison Williams (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Cochrane Hazelton (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Leon Humphrey (Republican) — YEA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Victor Deuster (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard William Guenther (Republican) — YEA
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Blair Hoge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Edward Kenna (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 293 members
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