Senate roll call 131 · 8th Congress · Feb 15, 1805
To decide the competency of counsel in the impeachment trial for judge samuel chase to ask a certain question.
On Feb 15, 1805, the Senate voted 9–23. Result: failed. By party: Others 9–23.
During the 8th Congress (1803–1804), Thomas Jefferson was president.
- Yes
- 9
- No
- 23
- Did not vote
- 12
- Date
- Feb 15, 1805
By party
- Others9 yes · 23 no · 12 didn’t vote
How each senator voted: Yes
- Uriah Tracy O-CT
- James Asheton Bayard Sr. O-DE
- Samuel White O-DE
- Timothy Pickering O-MA
- Samuel Smith O-MD
- William Plumer O-NH
- Stevens Thomson Mason O-VA
- Wilson Cary Nicholas O-VA
- Israel Smith O-VT
How each senator voted: No
- James Hillhouse O-CT
- Abraham Baldwin O-GA
- James Jackson O-GA
- John Breckinridge O-KY
- John Brown O-KY
- John Quincy Adams O-MA
- Robert Wright O-MD
- David Stone O-NC
- Jesse Franklin O-NC
- Simeon Olcott O-NH
- John Condit O-NJ
- Jonathan Dayton O-NJ
- John Smith O-NY
- John Smith O-OH
- Thomas Worthington O-OH
- George Logan O-PA
- Samuel Maclay O-PA
- Christopher Ellery O-RI
- Samuel John Potter O-RI
- Thomas Sumter O-SC
- Joseph Inslee Anderson O-TN
- William Cocke O-TN
- Stephen Row Bradley O-VT
Did not vote
- William Hill Wells O-DE
- De Witt Clinton O-NY
- John Armstrong Jr. O-NY
- Samuel Latham Mitchill O-NY
- Theodorus Bailey O-NY
- Benjamin Howland O-RI
- John Gaillard O-SC
- Pierce Butler O-SC
- Abraham Bedford Venable O-VA
- Andrew Moore O-VA
- John Taylor O-VA
- William Branch Giles O-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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