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Voting Results
on the
Virginia Ordinance of Secession


The names of those who voted in the affirmative are -

Messrs. William M. Ambler (Louisa)
Wm. B. Aston (Russell and Wise)
James Barbour (Culpeper)
Angus R. Blakey (Madison)
George Blow, Jr.
James Boisseau (Dinwiddie)
Peter B. Borst (Page)
Wood Bouldin (Charlotte)
William W. Boyd (Botetourt)
Thomas Branch (Petersburg)
James C. Bruce (Halifax)
Frederick M. Cabell (Nelson)
John A. Campbell (Washington)
Allen T. Caperton (Monroe)
William P. Cecil (Tazewell)
John R. Chambliss (Greenesville and Sussex)
Manilius Chapman (Giles)
Samuel A. Coffman (Rockingham)
Raphael M. Conn (Shenandoah)
James H. Cox (Chesterfield)
Richard H. Cox (Essex and King & Queen)
John Critcher (Richmond County & Westmoreland)
Harvey Deskins (Floyd)
James B. Dorman (Rockbridge)
John Echols (Monroe)
Miers W. Fisher (Northampton)
Thomas S. Flournoy (Halifax)
William W. Forbes (Buckingham)
Napoleon B. French (Mercer)
Samuel M. Garland (Amherst)
Henry L. Gillespie (Fayette and Raleigh)
Samuel L. Graham (Tazewell)
Fendall Gregory, Jr. (King William)
William L. Goggin (Bedford)
John Goode, Jr. (Bedford)
Thomas F. Goode (Mecklenburg)
F. L. Hale (Carroll)
Cyrus Hall (Pleasants and Ritchie)
Leonard S. Hall (Wetzel)
Lewis E. Harvie (Amelia and Nottoway)
James P. Holcombe (Albemarle)
John N. Hughes (Randolph and Tucker)
Eppa Hunton (Prince William)
Lewis D. Isbell (Appomattox)
Marmaduke Johnson (Richmond City)
Peter C. Johnston (Lee and Scott)
Robert C. Kent (Wythe)
John J. Kindred (Southampton)
James Lawson (Logan, Boone and Wyoming)
Walter D. Leake (Goochland)
William H. Macfarland (Richmond City)
Charles K. Mallory (Elizabeth City, Warwick, York and Williamsburg)
James B. Mallory (Brunswick)
John L. Marye, Sr. (Spotsylvania)
Fleming B. Miller
Horatio G. Moffett (Rappahannock)
Robert L. Montague (Matthews and Middlesex)
Edmund T. Morris (Caroline)
Jeremiah Morton (Greene and Orange)
William J. Neblett (Lunenburg)
Johnson Orrick (Morgan)
William C. Parks (Grayson)
Wm. Ballard Preston (Montgomery)
George W. Randolph (Richmond City)
George W. Richardson (Hanover)
Timothy Rives
Robert E. Scott (Fauquier)
William C. Scott (Cumberland and Powhatan)
John T. Seawell (Gloucester)
James W. Sheffey (Smyth)
Charles R. Slaughter (Campbell)
Valentine W. Southall (Albemarle)
John M. Speed (Campbell)
Samuel G. Staples (Patrick)
James M. Strange (Fluvanna)
William T. Sutherlin (Pittsylvania)
George P. Tayloe (Roanoke)
John T. Thornton (Prince Edward)
William M. Tredway (Pittsylvania)
Robert H. Turner (Warren)
Franklin P. Turner (Jackson and Roane)
John Tyler
Edward Waller (King George and Stafford)
Robert H. Whitfield (Isle of Wight)
Samuel C. Williams (Shenandoah)
Henry A. Wise
Samuel Woods (Barbour)
Benj'n F. Wysor (Pulaski) - 88.


The names of those who voted in the negative are -

Messrs. John Janney (Pres't) (Loudoun)
Edward M. Armstrong (Hampshire)
John B. Baldwin (Augusta)
George Baylor (Augusta)
George W. Berlin (Upshur)
Caleb Boggess (Lewis)
George W. Brent (Alexandria)
William G. Brown (Preston)
John S. Burdett (Taylor)
James Burley (Marshall)
Benj. W. Byrne
John S. Carlile (Harrison)
John A. Carter (Loudoun)
Sherrard Clemens (Ohio)
C. B. Conrad (Gilmer, Wirt and Calhoun)
Robert Y. Conrad (Frederick)
James H. Couch (Mason)
William H. B. Custis (Accomac)
Marshall M. Dent (Monongalia)
William H. Dulany (Fairfax)
Jubal A. Early (Franklin)
Colbert C. Fugate (Scott)
Peyton Gravely (Henry)
Algernon S. Gray (Rockingham)
Ephraim B. Hall (Marion)
Allen C. Hammond (Berkeley)
Alpheus F. Haymond (Marion)
James W. Hoge (Putnam)
J. G. Holladay (Norfolk County)
Chester D. Hubbard (Ohio)
George W. Hull (Highland)
John J. Jackson (Wood)
John F. Lewis (Rockingham)
William McComas (Cabell)
James C. McGrew (Preston)
James Marshall (Frederick)
Henry H. Masters (Pendleton)
Samuel McD. Moore (Rockbridge)
Hugh M. Nelson (Clarke)
Logan Osburn (Jefferson)
Spicer Patrick (Kanawha)
Edmund Pendleton (Berkeley)
George McC. Porter (Hancock)
Samuel Price (Greenbrier)
David Pugh (Hampshire)
John D. Sharp (Lee)
Thomas Sitlington (Alleghany and Bath)
Burwell Spurlock (Wayne)
Alex. H. H. Stuart (Augusta)
Chapman J. Stuart (Doddridge and Tyler)
George W. Summers (Kanawha)
Campbell Tarr (Brooke)
William White (Norfolk County)
Williams C. Wickham (Henrico)
Wait. T. Willey (Monongalia) - 55.


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