The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY THE RESOLUTION AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION BY ALLOWING FOR THE REMOVAL OF JUDGES BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE JOINT ORDER OF BOTH HOUSES. (P. 504)
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 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 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: 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 12 yes, 5 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, 1 no
- Pennsylvania: 2 yes, 14 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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, 6 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 17 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 5 no, 4 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, 3 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 7 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: 1 yes, 2 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 1 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kentucky 0 yes, 6 no
Massachusetts 12 yes, 5 no
- Barnabas Bidwell (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaiah Lewis Green (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Crowninshield (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist) — YEA
- John Chandler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Barker (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — YEA
- Orchard Cook (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — YEA
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — YEA
- William Ely (Federalist) — YEA
- William Stedman (Federalist) — YEA
Maryland 0 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NAY
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Leonard Covington (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Patrick Magruder (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Roger Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William McCreery (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
North Carolina 2 yes, 7 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Duncan McFarlan (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Evan Shelby Alexander (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Winston (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Marmaduke Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Kenan (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 4 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Caleb Ellis (Federalist) — YEA
- David Hough (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — YEA
- Silas Betton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Weston Thompson (Federalist) — YEA
New Jersey 3 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New York 7 yes, 9 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Eliphalet Wickes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Clinton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist) — YEA
- John Blake Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Russell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Masters (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — YEA
- Martin Gerretsen Schuneman (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peter Sailly (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Halsey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 2 yes, 14 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Frederick Conrad (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Isaac Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Richards (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- James Kelly (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Hamilton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Pugh (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 0 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rogerson Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Levi Casey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- O'Brien Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Marion (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Tennessee 0 yes, 3 no
Virginia 1 yes, 17 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Wilson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Christopher Henderson Clark (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Mercer Garnett (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Mann Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Vermont 2 yes, 2 no
Every vote, by name — 142 members
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