The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PROCEED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION CONCERNING AMERICAN CITIZENS IN BRITISH PRISONS, AND THEREBY DISCHARGING THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFARIS FROM CONSIDERATION OF SAME. (P. 3275-1)
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 14 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 4 every one voted no; 17 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: 5 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 3 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 3 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: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 8 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 12 yes, 5 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 2 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 1 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 7 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 7 yes, 4 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 12 yes, 11 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 10 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 3 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 3 yes, 1 no
- Tennessee: 7 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 6 yes, 0 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 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Miller Shelley (Democrat) — YEA
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Hilary Abner Herbert (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hord Herndon (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- William Calvin Oates (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Forney (Democrat) — YEA
Arkansas 3 yes, 1 no
California 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Campbell Polson Berry (Democrat) — YEA
- Horace Francis Page (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Romualdo Pacheco (Republican) — NAY
- William Starke Rosecrans (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Miles (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Phelps (Democrat) — YEA
- 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 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 7 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Democrat) — YEA
- Emory Speer (Ind. Democrat) — YEA
- George Robison Black (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — YEA
- Hugh Buchanan (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — NAY
- Judson Claudius Clements (Democrat) — YEA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Cook (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 1 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter (Republican) — NAY
- John Adam Kasson (Republican) — NAY
- Marsena Edgar Cutts (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Ayers McCoid (Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Updegraff (Republican) — NAY
- William George Thompson (Republican) — NAY
- William Peters Hepburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 8 yes, 3 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Benjamin Farwell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Dietrich Conrad Smith (Republican) — NAY
- George Royal Davis (Republican) — YEA
- James Washington Singleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Crocker Sherwin (Republican) — YEA
- John Henry Lewis (Republican) — NAY
- John Robert Thomas (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Edwin Payson (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Wellington Townshend (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Moffett Allison Hawk (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Aldrich (Republican) — YEA
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks (Democrat) — YEA
- William Cullen (Republican) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ralls Morrison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 7 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Courtland Cushing Matson (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Steele (Republican) — YEA
- Godlove Stein Orth (Republican) — YEA
- Mark Lindsey de Motte (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce (Republican) — YEA
- Stanton Judkins Peelle (Republican) — NAY
- Strother Madison Stockslager (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas McLelland Browne (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Reed Cobb (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick (Democrat) — YEA
- William Heilman (Republican) — NAY
- William Henry Calkins (Republican) — NAY
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — YEA
Kansas 0 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Dudley Chase Haskell (Republican) — NAY
- John Alexander Anderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Ryan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Shelby Willis (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Conner Phister (Democrat) — YEA
- 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) — YEA
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oscar Turner (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 4 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 2 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Amasa Norcross (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Winslow Harris (Republican) — NAY
- Eben Francis Stone (Republican) — YEA
- George Dexter Robinson (Republican) — NAY
- John Wilson Candler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Leopold Morse (Democrat) — YEA
- Selwyn Zadock Bowman (Republican) — NAY
- William Augustus Russell (Republican) — NAY
- William Wallace Crapo (Republican) — NAY
- William Whitney Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Grant Chapman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Covington (Democrat) — YEA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Milton George Urner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Milligan McLane (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 5 yes, 0 no
Michigan 2 yes, 3 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Samuel Lacey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edwin Willits (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Webber (Republican) — YEA
- Henry William Lord (Republican) — YEA
- Jay Abel Hubbell (Republican) — NAY
- John Tyler Rich (Republican) — NAY
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Oliver Lyman Spaulding (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roswell Gilbert Horr (Republican) — NAY
Minnesota 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Burton Strait (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Mark Hill Dunnell (Republican) — YEA
- William Drew Washburn (Republican) — YEA
Missouri 10 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner (Democrat) — NAY
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- John Bullock Clark Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Burrows (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Lowndes Henry Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Linn Clardy (Democrat) — YEA
- Nicholas Ford (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Richard Graham Frost (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Thompson van Horn (Republican) — YEA
- Theron Moses Rice (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
North Carolina 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Moore Scales (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Clement Dowd (Democrat) — YEA
- John Williams Shackelford (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Charles Latham (Democrat) — YEA
- Orlando Hubbs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Brank Vance (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Franklin Armfield (Democrat) — YEA
- William Ruffin Cox (Democrat) — YEA
Nebraska 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Kimble Valentine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 3 no
New Jersey 3 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh (Democrat) — YEA
- George Maxwell Robeson (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Schenck Harris (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Hart Brewer (Republican) — YEA
- John Hill (Republican) — YEA
- Miles Ross (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Phineas Jones (Republican) — NAY
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 12 yes, 5 no, 16 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham X. Parker (Republican) — NAY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Anson George McCook (Republican) — YEA
- Archibald Meserole Bliss (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Wood (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Rufus Skinner (Republican) — YEA
- Cyrus Dan Prescott (Republican) — NAY
- David Plunket Richardson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ferris Jacobs Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Hiscock (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George West (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry van Aernam (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NAY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hammond (Republican) — NAY
- John Hardy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Camp (Republican) — NAY
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Hyatt Smith (Independent) — YEA
- John van Voorhis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Scoville (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Mason (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lewis Beach (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Nicholas Nolan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Perry Belmont (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Henry Dugro (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Crowley (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat) — YEA
- Samuel Sullivan Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Cornell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Waldo Hutchins (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Abbott Wood (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Erigena Robinson (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 7 yes, 4 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Addison S. McClure (Republican) — YEA
- Amos Townsend (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Butterworth (Republican) — YEA
- Benjamin Le Fevre (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Emanuel Shultz (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NAY
- George Leroy Converse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Geddes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Gibson Atherton (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Lee Morey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Safford Neal (Republican) — NAY
- James Monroe Ritchie (Republican) — YEA
- James Sidney Robinson (Republican) — YEA
- John Birchard Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Peter Leedom (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff (Republican) — NAY
- Rufus Dawes (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Lowry Young (Republican) — YEA
- William McKinley Jr. (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Melvin Clark George (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 12 yes, 11 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Herr Smith (Republican) — NAY
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — YEA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NAY
- Cornelius Comegys Jadwin (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Ermentrout (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NAY
- Horatio Gates Fisher (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Miller Campbell (Republican) — NAY
- James Mosgrove (National Greenbacker) — YEA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton (Republican) — YEA
- Lewis Findlay Watson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Morgan Ringland Wise (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Klotz (Democrat) — YEA
- Russell Errett (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Fleming Barr (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Henry Miller (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Jackson Randall (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas McKee Bayne (Republican) — NAY
- William Darrah Kelley (Republican) — NAY
- William Godshalk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — YEA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger (Republican) — NAY
- William Ward (Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Joshua Spooner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jonathan Chace (Republican) — NAY
South Carolina 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Tennessee 7 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Herman Pettibone (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Bryson Simonton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Gibbs Dibrell (Democrat) — YEA
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins (Democrat) — YEA
- John Ford House (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Campbell Houk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Warner (Democrat) — YEA
- Washington Curran Whitthorne (Democrat) — YEA
- William Robert Moore (Republican) — NAY
Texas 6 yes, 0 no
Virginia 3 yes, 3 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Fulkerson (Readjuster Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Craighead Cabell (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — YEA
- George Tankard Garrison (Democrat) — NAY
- John Frederick Dezendorf (Republican) — NAY
- John Paul (Readjuster Democrat) — YEA
- John Randolph Tucker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Strode Barbour Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Jorgensen (Republican) — NAY
Vermont 0 yes, 3 no
Wisconsin 4 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Grandison Williams (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (Democrat) — YEA
- George Cochrane Hazelton (Republican) — NAY
- Herman Leon Humphrey (Republican) — YEA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell (Republican) — NAY
- Peter Victor Deuster (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard William Guenther (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound (Republican) — NAY
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Blair Hoge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Edward Kenna (Democrat) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 293 members
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