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United States Senate elections, 1932
United States Senate elections, 1932
‹ 1930 1934 › Majority Leader-elect Joseph Robinson Democratic
United States Senate elections, 1932
35 seats in the United States Senate
November 2, 1932 Majority party
Leader Party Leader’s seat Last election Seats won Seat change
Joseph Robinson Democratic Arkansas 47 seats 60 +13
The U.S. Senate election of 1932 coincided with Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s crushing defeat of incumbent Herbert Hoover Minority partyin the presidential election. With the administration widely blamed for the Great Depression, Republicans lost twelve seats and control of the chamber. Democrats took open seats in California, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and defeated nine incumbents: • Karl C. Schuyler (R-CO) • Hiram Bingham (R-CT) • John Thomas (R-ID) • Otis F. Glenn (R-IL) • James E. Watson (R-IN) (sitting Majority Leader) • Tasker L. Oddie (R-NV) • George H. Moses (R-NH) Charles McNary Smoot (R-UT) (whose Hawley-Smoot • Reed tariff is often cited by economists as one Republican of the factors causing the depression) Oregon• Wesley L. Jones (R-WA)
48 seats 35 -13
Senate contests in 1932
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Caraway won two elections in 1932. She won a special election for the Senate seat on Jan. 12, 1932, in which she won over 91 percent of the vote, over independent candidates Rex Floyd and Sam D. Carson. 2 special election held due to death of William J. Harris (D-GA) 3 special election held due to death of Dwight W. Morrow (R-NJ) 4 Morrison was appointed on December 13, 1930, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Lee Slater Overman (D-NC)
Republican holds Republican holds Republican pickups Democratic pickups Incumbent Majority Leader James Watson Republican
Senate composition beDemocratic holds fore and after elections
72nd Congress Senate Composition 73rd
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State Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Incumbent Party Hugo L. Black Democrat Status
United States Senate elections, 1932
Opposing Candidates J. Theodore Johnson (Republican) Ralph H. Cameron (Republican) John W. White (Republican)
Re-elected, 86.3 - 13.8 Re-elected, 66.7 - 32.1 Re-elected, 89.5 - 10.5 1
Carl Hayden Democrat Hattie W. Caraway Samuel M. Shortridge Democrat
Republican Defeated in primary: Democratic William G. McAdoo victory, 43.4 - 30.8 - 25.8 (Democrat) Tallant Tubbs (Republican) Robert P. Shuler (Prohibition) Republican Defeated, 51.9 - 45.5 Alva B. Adams (Democrat) Augustine Lonergan (Democrat)
Colorado
Karl C. Schuyler
Connecticut Hiram Bing- Republican Defeated, 48.5 - 47.7 ham III Florida Georgia2 Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Duncan U. Fletcher John S. Cohen Walter F. George John Thomas Otis F. Glenn James E. Watson Smith W. Brookhart Democrat Democrat Democrat Re-elected, 99.8 Retired: Democratic victory, unopposed Re-elected, 92.8 - 7.2
Richard Russell, Jr. (Democrat) James W. Arnold (Republican) James Pope (Democrat) William H. Dieterich (Democrat) Frederick Van Nuys (Democrat)
Republican Defeated, 55.7 - 42.3 Republican Defeated, 52.2 - 46.0 Republican Defeated, 55.6 - 42.3
Republican Defeated in primary: Democratic Richard L. Murphy victory, 54.9 - 40.8 (Democrat) Henry Field (Republican) Democrat Democrat Democrat Democrat Democrat Re-elected, 45.7 - 42.0 Re-elected, 59.2 - 40.5 Ben S. Paulen (Republican) M. H. Thatcher (Republican)
Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Missouri
George McGill Alben W. Barkley Edwin S. Broussard Millard E. Tydings Harry B. Hawes
Defeated in primary: Democratic John H. Overton victory, unopposed (Democrat) Re-elected, 66.2 - 31.2 Wallace Williams (Republican)
Retired: Democratic victory, 63.2 Bennett Champ - 35.9 Clark (Democrat) Henry Kiel (Republican) Patrick A. McCarran (Democrat)
Nevada
Tasker L. Oddie
Republican Defeated, 52.1 - 47.9
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New Hampshire George H. Moses
United States Senate elections, 1932
Fred H. Brown (Democrat) Percy H. Stewart (Democrat) George Z. Medalie (Republican)
Republican Defeated, 50.4 - 49.3 Republican Re-elected, 49.6 - 48.5 Democrat Re-elected, 55.8 - 38.6
New Jersey3 W. Warren Barbour New York North Carolina Robert F. Wagner
Cameron A. Democrat Morrison4
Retired: Democratic victory, 68.3 Robert R. Reyn- 31.7 olds (Democrat) Jake F. Newell (Republican) P. W. Lanier (Democrat) Gilbert Bettman (Republican) Wirt Franklin (Republican) Walter B. Gleason (Democrat) Lawrence H. Rupp (Democrat)
North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon
Gerald P. Nye Robert J. Bulkley Elmer Thomas Frederick Steiwer
Republican Re-elected, 72.3 - 27.5 Democrat Democrat Re-elected, 52.5 - 45.8 Re-elected, 65.6 - 33.7
Republican Re-elected, 52.7 - 38.9 Republican Re-elected, 49.3 - 43.2 Democrat Re-elected, unopposed
Pennsylvania James J. Davis South Carolina South Dakota Utah Vermont Washington Wisconsin Ellison D. Smith Peter Norbeck
Republican Re-elected, 53.8 - 44.6
U. S. G. Cherry (Democrat) Elbert D. Thomas (Democrat) Fred C. Martin (Democrat) Homer T. Bone (Democrat)
Reed Smoot Republican Defeated, 56.7 - 41.7 Porter H. Dale Wesley L. Jones John J. Blaine Republican Re-elected, 55.1 - 44.9 Republican Defeated, 60.6 - 32.7
Republican Defeated in primary: Democratic F. Ryan Duffy victory, 57.0 - 36.2 - 6.1 (Democrat) John B. Chapple (Republican) Emil Seidel (Socialist)
Color Key:
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See also
• United States presidential election, 1932 • United States House elections, 1932 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_1932" Categories: 1932 elections in the United States, United States Senate elections
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