The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS THE RESOLUTION TO CONTINUE IN FORCE THE ACT COMMONLY CALLED THE SEDITION LAW. (SPEAKER VOTING IN THE AFFIRMATIVE). (P. 975)
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 4 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 9 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: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 4 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: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 4 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 10 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 4 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 3 no
- Connecticut: 7 yes, 0 no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 4 yes, 13 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 4 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: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 6 no
- South Carolina: 3 yes, 3 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- 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.
Connecticut 7 yes, 0 no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Federalist) — NAY
- James Jones (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Terry Davis (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Massachusetts 10 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Bailey Bartlett (Federalist) — YEA
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- George Thacher (Federalist) — YEA
- Harrison Gray Otis (Federalist) — YEA
- John Reed (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — YEA
- Levi Lincoln (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Silas Lee (Federalist) — YEA
- Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist) — YEA
- William Shepard (Federalist) — YEA
Maryland 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Gabriel Christie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Baer Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- George Dent (Federalist) — NAY
- John Chew Thomas (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dennis (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Craik (Federalist) — YEA
North Carolina 4 yes, 6 no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — YEA
- David Stone (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Dickson (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Dobbs Spaight (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — YEA
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 4 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 3 no
New York 4 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Livingston (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Glen (Federalist) — YEA
- John Bird (Federalist) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jonas Platt (Federalist) — YEA
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Cooper (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 4 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — YEA
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Wilkes Kittera (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Thomas (Federalist) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Waln (Federalist) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 3 yes, 3 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no
Virginia 4 yes, 13 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Lee (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Nicholas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Eggleston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Parker (Federalist) — NAY
- Leven Powell (Federalist) — YEA
- Littleton Waller Tazewell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Page (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Goode (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Evans (Federalist) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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