House roll call 58 · 5th Congress · Apr 2, 1798
To pass the resolution that the President of the U.S. Be requested to communicate to this house, the instructions to and dispatches from, the envoys extradinary
On Apr 2, 1798, the House voted 65–27. Result: passed. By party: Others 65–27.
During the 5th Congress (1797–1798), John Adams was president.
- Yes
- 65
- No
- 27
- Did not vote
- 25
- Date
- Apr 2, 1798
By party
- Others65 yes · 27 no · 25 didn’t vote
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Allen O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Sr. O-DE
- Abraham Baldwin O-GA
- John Milledge O-GA
- Thomson Joseph Skinner O-MA
- Nathaniel Freeman Jr. O-MA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum O-MA
- Bailey Bartlett O-MA
- Peleg Wadsworth O-MA
- George Dent O-MD
- Richard Sprigg Jr. O-MD
- William Craik O-MD
- George Baer Jr. O-MD
- Samuel Smith O-MD
- William Matthews O-MD
- John Dennis O-MD
- Joseph Mcdowell O-NC
- Matthew Locke O-NC
- Robert Williams O-NC
- Richard Stanford O-NC
- Nathaniel Macon O-NC
- James Gillespie O-NC
- William Barry Grove O-NC
- Dempsey Burges O-NC
- Thomas Blount O-NC
- Nathan Bryan O-NC
- Peleg Sprague O-NH
- Edward Livingston O-NY
- Jonathan Nicoll Havens O-NY
- Philip Van Cortlandt O-NY
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf O-NY
- David Brooks O-NY
- Hezekiah Lord Hosmer O-NY
- John Williams O-NY
- Blair Mcclenachan O-PA
- John Chapman O-PA
- Joseph Hiester O-PA
- John Andre Hanna O-PA
- Andrew Gregg O-PA
- David Bard O-PA
- William Findley O-PA
- Albert Gallatin O-PA
- Thomas Pinckney O-SC
- John Rutledge Jr. O-SC
- Thomas Sumter O-SC
- Robert Goodloe Harper O-SC
- William Smith O-SC
- William Charles Cole Claiborne O-TN
- David Holmes O-VA
- James Machir O-VA
- Abram Trigg O-VA
- John Johns Trigg O-VA
- Abraham Bedford Venable O-VA
- Thomas Claiborne O-VA
- William Branch Giles O-VA
- Carter Bassett Harrison O-VA
- Josiah Parker O-VA
- John Clopton O-VA
- Samuel Jordan Cabell O-VA
- John Dawson O-VA
- Anthony New O-VA
- Richard Brent O-VA
- John Nicholas O-VA
- Walter Jones O-VA
- Matthew Lyon O-VT
How each representative voted: No
- Chauncey Goodrich O-CT
- Joshua Coit O-CT
- Nathaniel Smith O-CT
- Roger Griswold O-CT
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana O-CT
- William Shepard O-MA
- Samuel Lyman O-MA
- Dwight Foster O-MA
- John Reed O-MA
- Stephen Bullock O-MA
- Harrison Gray Otis O-MA
- Samuel Sewall O-MA
- Isaac Parker O-MA
- George Thacher O-MA
- William Hindman O-MD
- Abiel Foster O-NH
- James Henderson Imlay O-NJ
- James Schureman O-NJ
- Thomas Sinnickson O-NJ
- John Evert Van Alen O-NY
- Henry Glen O-NY
- Richard Thomas O-PA
- John Wilkes Kittera O-PA
- Thomas Hartley O-PA
- Thomas Tillinghast O-RI
- Daniel Morgan O-VA
- Lewis Richard Morris O-VT
Did not vote
- James Davenport O-CT
- Jonathan Brace O-CT
- William Edmond O-CT
- Thomas Terry Davis O-KY
- John Fowler O-KY
- Theophilus Bradbury O-MA
- Richard Dobbs Spaight O-NC
- Jeremiah Smith O-NH
- Jonathan Freeman O-NH
- William Gordon O-NH
- Jonathan Dayton O-NJ
- Mark Thomson O-NJ
- James Cochran O-NY
- John Swanwick O-PA
- Robert Waln O-PA
- Robert Brown O-PA
- Samuel Sitgreaves O-PA
- George Ege O-PA
- Christopher Grant Champlin O-RI
- Elisha Reynolds Potter O-RI
- William Loughton Smith O-SC
- Lemuel Benton O-SC
- Matthew Clay O-VA
- Joseph Eggleston O-VA
- Thomas Evans O-VA
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