The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO CONSENT TO THE APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM CLARKE OF INDIANA, NOW 1ST LIEUTENANT, TO BE LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN THE 2ND REGIMENT, TO SUCCEED THOMAS CUSHING.
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 senators voted
In 4 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 2 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its senators 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
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 2 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 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, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 1 no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 2 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, 0 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 0 yes, 2 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 2 no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 2 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 1 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: 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 0 yes, 2 no
Delaware 0 yes, 2 no
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Baldwin (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Milledge (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 0 yes, 2 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Stone (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Turner (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 0 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Worthington (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 1 no
Rhode Island 0 yes, 2 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Gaillard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Sumter (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
Every vote, by name — 34 members
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