United States Senate elections, 1932

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The U.S. Senate election, 1932 was an election for the United States Senate which coincided with Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt's crushing defeat of incumbent Herbert Hoover in 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)
• Reed Smoot (R-UT) (whose Hawley-Smoot tariff is often cited by economists as one of the factors causing the depression)
• Wesley L. Jones (R-WA)

[edit] Senate contests in 1932

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Alabama	Hugo L. Black	Democrat	Re-elected, 86.3 - 13.8	J. Theodore Johnson (Republican)
Arizona	Carl Hayden	Democrat	Re-elected, 66.7 - 32.1	Ralph H. Cameron (Republican)
Arkansas	Hattie W. Caraway	Democrat	Re-elected, 89.5 - 10.5	John W. White (Republican)
California	Samuel M. Shortridge	Republican	Defeated in primary: Democratic victory, 43.4 - 30.8 - 25.8	William G. McAdoo (Democrat) Tallant Tubbs (Republican) Robert P. Schuler (Independent)
Colorado	Karl C. Schuyler	Republican	Defeated, 51.9 - 45.5	Alva B. Adams (Democrat)
Connecticut	Hiram Bingham III	Republican	Defeated, 48.5 - 47.7	Augustine Lonergan (Democrat)
Florida	Duncan U. Fletcher	Democrat	Re-elected, 99.8
Georgia1	John S. Cohen	Democrat	Retired: Democratic victory, unopposed	Richard Russell, Jr. (Democrat)
Georgia	Walter F. George	Democrat	Re-elected, 92.8 - 7.2	James W. Arnold (Republican)
Idaho	John Thomas	Republican	Defeated, 55.7 - 42.3	James Pope (Democrat)
Illinois	Otis F. Glenn	Republican	Defeated, 52.2 - 46.0	William H. Dieterich (Democrat)
Indiana	James E. Watson	Republican	Defeated, 55.6 - 42.3	Frederick Van Nuys (Democrat)
Iowa	Smith W. Brookhart	Republican	Defeated in primary: Democratic victory, 54.9 - 40.8	Richard L. Murphy (Democrat) Henry Field (Republican)
Kansas	George McGill	Democrat	Re-elected, 45.7 - 42.0	Ben S. Paulen (Republican)
Kentucky	Alben W. Barkley	Democrat	Re-elected, 59.2 - 40.5	M. H. Thatcher (Republican)
Louisiana	Edwin S. Broussard	Democrat	Defeated in primary: Democratic victory, unopposed	John H. Overton (Democrat)
Maryland	Millard E. Tydings	Democrat	Re-elected, 66.2 - 31.2	Wallace Williams (Republican)
Missouri	Harry B. Hawes	Democrat	Retired: Democratic victory, 63.2 - 35.9	Bennett Champ Clark (Democrat) Harry W. Kiel (Republican)
Nevada	Tasker L. Oddie	Republican	Defeated, 52.1 - 47.9	Patrick A. McCarran (Democrat)
New Hampshire	George H. Moses	Republican	Defeated, 50.4 - 49.3	Fred H. Brown (Democrat)
New Jersey2	W. Warren Barbour	Republican	Re-elected, 49.6 - 48.5	Percy H. Stewart (Democrat)
New York	Robert F. Wagner	Democrat	Re-elected, 55.8 - 38.6	George Z. Medalie (Republican)
North Carolina	Cameron A. Morrison3	Democrat	Retired: Democratic victory, 68.3 - 31.7	Robert R. Reynolds (Democrat) Jake F. Newell (Republican)
North Dakota	Gerald P. Nye	Republican	Re-elected, 72.3 - 27.5	P. W. Lanier (Democrat)
Ohio	Robert J. Bulkley	Democrat	Re-elected, 52.5 - 45.8	Gilbert Bettman (Republican)
Oklahoma	Elmer Thomas	Democrat	Re-elected, 65.6 - 33.7	Wirt Franklin (Republican)
Oregon	Frederick Steiwer	Republican	Re-elected, 52.7 - 38.9	Walter B. Gleason (Democrat)
Pennsylvania	James J. Davis	Republican	Re-elected, 49.3 - 43.2	Lawrence H. Rupp (Democrat)
South Carolina	Ellison D. Smith	Democrat	Re-elected, unopposed
South Dakota	Peter Norbeck	Republican	Re-elected, 53.8 - 44.6	U. S. G. Cherry (Democrat)
Utah	Reed Smoot	Republican	Defeated, 56.7 - 41.7	Elbert D. Thomas (Democrat)
Vermont	Porter H. Dale	Republican	Re-elected, 55.1 - 44.9	Fred C. Martin (Democrat)
Washington	Wesley L. Jones	Republican	Defeated, 60.6 - 32.7	Homer T. Bone (Democrat)
Wisconsin	John J. Blaine	Republican	Defeated in primary: Democratic victory, 57.0 - 36.2 - 6.1	F. Ryan Duffy (Democrat) John B. Chapple (Republican) Emil Seidel (Socialist)

¹ special election held due to death of William J. Harris (D-GA)

² special election held due to death of Dwight W. Morrow (R-NJ)

³ Morrison was appointed on December 13, 1930, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Lee Slater Overman (D-NC)

[edit] Senate composition before and after elections

72nd Congress Senate Composition

73rd Congress Senate Composition

Color Key: Democrats Republicans Farmer-Labor

[edit] See also

• United States presidential election, 1932
• United States House elections, 1932

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