The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 89 BY ELIMINATING NINE MASTERS COMMANDANTS FROM NAVAL OFFICERS PERSONNEL. (P. 477)
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)
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.
Every roll call on H.R. 89
How each state's members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 6 every one voted no; 7 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 7 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 13 no, 4 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 9 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 11 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 5 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: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 3 yes, 1 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 4 yes, 1 no, 3 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, 0 no, 3 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 0 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — NAY
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Davenport (Federalist) — NAY
- Jonathan Ogden Moseley (Federalist) — NAY
- Lewis Burr Sturges (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NAY
- Timothy Pitkin (Federalist) — NAY
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Madison Broom (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- David Meriwether (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Bryan (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peter Early (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Spalding (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- George Michael Bedinger (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Boyle (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Lyon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Matthew Walton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sandford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Massachusetts 0 yes, 13 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Barnabas Bidwell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Isaiah Lewis Green (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Crowninshield (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist) — NAY
- John Chandler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Barker (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — NAY
- Orchard Cook (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — NAY
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — NAY
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — NAY
- William Ely (Federalist) — NAY
- William Stedman (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 0 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NAY
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Covington (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Patrick Magruder (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Roger Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William McCreery (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
North Carolina 3 yes, 1 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Duncan McFarlan (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Evan Shelby Alexander (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Winston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Marmaduke Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Blount (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Kenan (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
New Hampshire 0 yes, 5 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Ebenezer Elmer (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Ezra Darby (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Henry Southard (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Sloan (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Lambert (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Helms (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 2 yes, 7 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Eliphalet Wickes (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Clinton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Blake Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Russell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Josiah Masters (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NAY
- Martin Gerretsen Schuneman (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peter Sailly (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Halsey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 9 yes, 4 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Frederick Conrad (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Jacob Richards (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kelly (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Hamilton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Pugh (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- David Rogerson Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Levi Casey (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- O'Brien Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Marion (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 11 yes, 6 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Wilson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Christopher Henderson Clark (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Mercer Garnett (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — NAY
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Mann Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Gideon Olin (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- James Elliot (Federalist) — YEA
- James Fisk (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Chittenden (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 141 members
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