The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 723, GRANTING A PENSION TO CIVIL WAR NURSE SARAH L. HENDERSON, BY REDUCING HER MONTHLY PENSION FROM $20 TO $12.
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
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- 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)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
How each state's members voted
In 37 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 4 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, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 2 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: 1 yes, 0 no
- Idaho: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Montana: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 1 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 12 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 13 yes, 1 no, 20 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 8 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 8 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 12 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 11 yes, 0 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 1 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 7 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 5 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: 7 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 6 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 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 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Arkansas 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
California 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Anthony Caminetti (Democrat) — YEA
- Eugene Francis Loud (Republican) — YEA
- John Tyler Cutting (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph McKenna (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas J. Geary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Wallace Bowers (Republican) — YEA
Colorado 1 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Robert Bullock (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 8 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Leavell Moses (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Gray Turner (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henderson Blount (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert William Everett (Democrat) — YEA
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Edward Watson (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Elisha Winn (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Graves Lawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Iowa 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Bremner Henderson (Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Edward White (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Perkins (Republican) — YEA
- James Patton Flick (Republican) — YEA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull (Republican) — YEA
- John Joseph Seerley (Democrat) — YEA
- John Taylor Hamilton (Democrat) — YEA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Bowman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Halben Butler (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes (Democrat) — YEA
Idaho 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Willis Sweet (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 12 yes, 1 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Taylor Cable (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Lane (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Fithian (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Wilber Snow (Democrat) — YEA
- James Robert Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Edward McGann (Democrat) — YEA
- Lewis Steward (Democrat) — YEA
- Owen Scott (Democrat) — YEA
- Philip Sidney Post (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Roberts Hitt (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Thompson Busey (Democrat) — YEA
- Scott Wike (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson (Republican) — NAY
- Walter Cass Newberry (Democrat) — YEA
- William McKendree Springer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William St. John Forman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 8 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Newton Martin (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Franklin Shively (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles A. O. McClellan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel Webster Waugh (Republican) — YEA
- David Henry Patton (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Cooper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Underwood Johnson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jason Brevoort Brown (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Lewis Bretz (Democrat) — YEA
- William Dallas Bynum (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Fletcher Parrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Steele Holman (Democrat) — YEA
Kansas 7 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery (Democrat) — YEA
- Asher Graham Caruth (Democrat) — YEA
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight (Democrat) — YEA
- James Bennett McCreary (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Henry Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Hanson Paynter (Democrat) — YEA
- W. W. Dickerson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Democrat) — YEA
- William Johnson Stone (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Ellis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Meyer (Democrat) — YEA
- Andrew Price (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Jahleal Boatner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Diamond Lagan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Crain Blanchard (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Matthews Robertson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 8 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sturtevant Randall (Republican) — YEA
- Elijah Adams Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Spaulding Coolidge (Democrat) — YEA
- George Fred Williams (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican) — YEA
- John Crawford Crosby (Democrat) — YEA
- John Forrester Andrew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Henry O'Neil (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Henry Walker (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Moses Tyler Stevens (Democrat) — YEA
- Sherman Hoar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Cogswell (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Barnes Compton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Harry Welles Rusk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Page (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Herman Stump (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isidor Rayner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William McMahon McKaig (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Michigan 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Byron Gray Stout (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Eugene Belknap (Republican) — YEA
- Harrison H. Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Melville Youmans (Democrat) — YEA
- James O'Donnell (Republican) — YEA
- James Sedgwick Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
- John Logan Chipman (Democrat) — YEA
- Julius Caesar Burrows (Republican) — YEA
- Justin Rice Whiting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock (Democrat) — YEA
Minnesota 3 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Nathan Castle (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lind (Republican) — YEA
- Kittel Halvorson (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- Osee Matson Hall (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Harries (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 7 yes, 1 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Harley Mansur (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- David Albaugh de Armond (Democrat) — YEA
- John Charles Tarsney (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Joseph O'Neill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Taddeus Heard (Democrat) — YEA
- Marshall Arnold (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Henry Norton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Parks Bland (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Washington Fyan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Byrns (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Seth Wallace Cobb (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Hatch (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 6 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Montana 1 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Franklin Grady (Democrat) — YEA
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Plummer Cheatham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Steele Henderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander (Democrat) — YEA
- William Augustus Blount Branch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Henry Harrison Cowles (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Thomas Crawford (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Dakota 1 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Omer Madison Kem (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Arthur McKeighan (Populist) — NOT VOTING
- William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) — YEA
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Christopher Augustus Bergen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Francis McDonald (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Buchanan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Fowler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Dunn English (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Horace Franklin Bartine (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 13 yes, 1 no, 20 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Clark Chapin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Amos Jay Cummings (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Tracey (Democrat) — YEA
- Daniel Newton Lockwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward John Dunphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George van Horn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Ray (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Bacon (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Wilbur Bentley (Democrat) — YEA
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Newton Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- James Jerome Belden (Republican) — YEA
- James Way Covert (Democrat) — NAY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Adam Quackenbush (Republican) — YEA
- John De Witt Warner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Henry Ketcham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Madison Wever (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Michael Clancy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John R. Fellows (Democrat) — YEA
- John Raines (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Sanford (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph James Little (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Newton Martin Curtis (Republican) — YEA
- Sereno Elisha Payne (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Francis Magner (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy John Campbell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Warren Brewster Hooker (Republican) — YEA
- William Bourke Cockran (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Griggs Stahlnecker (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Jerome Coombs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Ohio 12 yes, 0 no, 9 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Jackson Pearson (Democrat) — YEA
- Bellamy Storer (Republican) — YEA
- Darius Dodge Hare (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dennis D. Donovan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Ezra Booth Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Fernando Coello Layton (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Houk (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Irvine Dungan (Democrat) — YEA
- James W. Owens (Democrat) — YEA
- John Alexander Caldwell (Republican) — YEA
- John George Warwick (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John M. Pattison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Danner Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Kissinger Gantz (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Daniel Harter (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Eachus Doan (Republican) — YEA
- Tom Loftin Johnson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Vincent Albert Taylor (Republican) — YEA
- William Elisha Haynes (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Enochs (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 11 yes, 0 no, 17 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Cole Hopkins (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Kerr Craig (Democrat) — YEA
- Alfred Crout Harmer (Republican) — YEA
- Charles O'Neill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Warren Stone (Republican) — YEA
- David B. Brunner (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Scull (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Hallowell (Democrat) — YEA
- Eugene Pierce Gillespie (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover (Democrat) — YEA
- George Franklin Huff (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Frederic Kribbs (Democrat) — YEA
- George Washington Shonk (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Harrison Bingham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Bernard Reilly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Buchanan Robinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dalzell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Edgar Reyburn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Winebrenner Rife (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Lemuel Amerman (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Evans Atkinson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marriott Brosius (Republican) — YEA
- Matthew Griswold (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Myron Benjamin Wright (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Simon Peter Wolverton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Alexis Stone (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William McAleer (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Mutchler (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Harrison Page (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Oscar Lapham (Democrat) — YEA
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Thomas Stackhouse (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Dionysius Tillman (Democrat) — YEA
- George Johnstone (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Washington Shell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John James Hemphill (Democrat) — YEA
- William Elliott (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Huggins Brawley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 6 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Alexander Taylor (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Benton McMillin (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry Clay Snodgrass (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Daniel Richardson (Democrat) — YEA
- John Chiles Houk (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Edwin Washington (Democrat) — YEA
- Josiah Patterson (Democrat) — YEA
- Nicholas Nichols Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Rice Alexander Pierce (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 6 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Stewart (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore (Democrat) — NAY
- David Browning Culberson (Democrat) — NAY
- John Benjamin Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Abbott (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Draper Sayers (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Weldon Bailey (Democrat) — YEA
- Littleton Wilde Moore (Democrat) — YEA
- Roger Quarles Mills (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Crain (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Virginia 5 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democrat) — YEA
- Elisha Edward Meredith (Democrat) — YEA
- George Douglas Wise (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry St. George Tucker (Democrat) — YEA
- James Fletcher Epes (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Buchanan (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Lawson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Paul Carrington Edmunds (Democrat) — YEA
- Posey Green Lester (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Atkinson Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
Washington 1 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 6 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Ralph Bushnell (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Barwig (Democrat) — YEA
- Clinton Babbitt (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Potter Coburn (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George H. Brickner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lendrum Mitchell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lucas Miltiades Miller (Democrat) — YEA
- Nils Pederson Haugen (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Lynch (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Capehart (Democrat) — YEA
- John Duffy Alderson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Overton Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Lyne Wilson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Wyoming 1 yes, 0 no
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