Senate roll call 81 · 6th Congress · May 14, 1800
To pass the resolution that the President be requested to instruct the proper law officer to commence and carry on a certain false, defamatory, scandalous, and
On May 14, 1800, the Senate voted 13–4. Result: passed. By party: Others 13–4.
During the 6th Congress (1799–1800), John Adams was president.
- Yes
- 13
- No
- 4
- Did not vote
- 21
- Date
- May 14, 1800
By party
- Others13 yes · 4 no · 21 didn’t vote
How each senator voted: Yes
- Uriah Tracy O-CT
- Henry Latimer O-DE
- William Hill Wells O-DE
- James Gunn O-GA
- Samuel Livermore O-NH
- Jonathan Dayton O-NJ
- Gouverneur Morris O-NY
- John Laurance O-NY
- James Ross O-PA
- William Bingham O-PA
- Ray Greene O-RI
- Theodore Foster O-RI
- Jacob Read O-SC
How each senator voted: No
- John Brown O-KY
- Jesse Franklin O-NC
- Timothy Bloodworth O-NC
- William Cocke O-TN
Did not vote
- James Hillhouse O-CT
- Abraham Baldwin O-GA
- Humphrey Marshall O-KY
- Benjamin Goodhue O-MA
- Dwight Foster O-MA
- Jonathan Mason O-MA
- Samuel Dexter O-MA
- James Lloyd O-MD
- John Eager Howard O-MD
- William Hindman O-MD
- John Langdon O-NH
- Aaron Ogden O-NJ
- James Schureman O-NJ
- James Watson O-NY
- John Armstrong Jr. O-NY
- Charles Pinckney O-SC
- Joseph Inslee Anderson O-TN
- Stevens Thomson Mason O-VA
- Wilson Cary Nicholas O-VA
- Elijah Paine O-VT
- Nathaniel Chipman O-VT
Other votes
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