The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS THE SENATE BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE INHABITANTS OF LOUISIANA AND THE U.S. CITIZENS THEREIN RESIDING, TO REGISTER THEIR VESSELS IN THE DISTRICT OF ORLEANS.
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 6 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 2 every one voted no; 8 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: 2 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 5 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: 7 yes, 4 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 6 yes, 9 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 16 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 4 yes, 2 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 16 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 5 yes, 1 no, 3 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: 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 8 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 2 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: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 4 yes, 0 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 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Calvin Goddard (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — NAY
- John Davenport (Federalist) — NAY
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — NAY
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NAY
- Simeon Baldwin (Federalist) — NAY
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Georgia 4 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 4 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 6 yes, 9 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Crowninshield (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — NAY
- Manasseh Cutler (Federalist) — NAY
- Nahum Mitchell (Federalist) — NAY
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — NAY
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Phineas Bruce (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — NAY
- Samuel Thatcher (Federalist) — NAY
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Dwight (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomson Joseph Skinner (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Eustis (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Stedman (Federalist) — NAY
Maryland 5 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Campbell (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dennis (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Plater (Federalist) — NAY
- Walter Bowie (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William McCreery (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 8 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- James Gillespie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Winston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Marmaduke Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Alexander (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Dinsmore Purviance (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Kennedy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 5 no
New Jersey 4 yes, 2 no
New York 7 yes, 4 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew McCord (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Beriah Palmer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Erastus Root (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Gaylord Griswold (Federalist) — NAY
- George Tibbits (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist) — NAY
- John Paterson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joshua Sands (Federalist) — NAY
- Josiah Hasbrouck (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NAY
- Oliver Phelps (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Latham Mitchill (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Riker (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Ohio 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 16 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Conrad (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Isaac van Horne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Richards (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Baptiste Charles Lucas (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Hoge (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Huger (Federalist) — NAY
- John Baylis Earle (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Levi Casey (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Lowndes (Federalist) — NAY
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Wade Hampton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 16 yes, 1 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Stephenson (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Griffin (Federalist) — YEA
- Thomas Lewis (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Mann Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 143 members
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