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1932 United States Senate election in Illinois
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| election_name | 1932 United States Senate election in Illinois |
| country | Illinois |
| flag_year | 1915 |
| type | presidential |
| ongoing | no |
| previous_election | 1928 United States Senate special election in Illinois |
| previous_year | 1928 (special) |
| next_election | 1938 United States Senate election in Illinois |
| next_year | 1938 |
| election_date | November 8, 1932 |
| image_size | x150px |
| image1 | William H. Dieterich (Illinois Blue Book Portrait 1933-1934) (cropped).png |
| nominee1 | **William H. Dieterich** |
| party1 | Democratic Party (United States) |
| popular_vote1 | **1,670,466** |
| percentage1 | **52.23%** |
| image2 | Otis Ferguson Glenn (1).jpg |
| nominee2 | Otis F. Glenn |
| party2 | Republican Party (United States) |
| popular_vote2 | 1,471,841 |
| percentage2 | 46.02% |
| map_image | 1932 United States Senate election in Illinois results map by county.svg |
| map_size | 300px |
| map_caption | County results |
| **Dieterich:** | |
| **Glenn:** | |
| title | U.S. senator |
| before_election | Otis F. Glenn |
| before_party | Republican Party (United States) |
| after_election | William H. Dieterich |
| after_party | Democratic Party (United States) |
Dieterich:
Glenn:
The 1932 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 8, 1932. Incumbent Republican Otis F. Glenn was unseated by Democrat William H. Dieterich.
Background
The primaries and general election coincided with those for federal elections (president and House) and those for state elections. Primaries were held April 12, 1932.
The economic downturn that was the Great Depression was raging through the nation since the 1929 Wall Street crash. Many voters laid blame for the downturn and its impacts on Republican president Herbert Hoover.
The 1930 election for Illinois' other U.S. Senate seat saw the first instance after the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted in 1912) went into effect (instituting popular elections for U.S. senate) that a Republican lost a U.S. Senate race in Illinois, with Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis winning that election.
Democratic primary
Candidates
- Thomas A. Cummings
- William H. Dieterich, U.S. congressman
- Clarence H. Kavanaugh
- Emmet Kennedy
- Scott W. Lucas, former Mason County state's attorney
- John B. Monroe
- Thomas F. O'Donnell
- Edward Sullivan
- William Young
Results
Republican primary
Candidates
- Otis F. Glenn, incumbent U.S. senator
- Newton Jenkins, candidate for U.S. Senate in 1924 and 1930
- T.B. Wright
Results
General election
References
References
- (February 2021). "OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, November 8, 1932 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1931-1932 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, April 12, 1932 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 12, 1932". Illinois State Board of Elections.
- (1988). "Ruth Hanna McCormick and the Senatorial Election of 1930". Illinois Historical Journal.
- Ryan, James G.. (2006). "Historical Dictionary of the 1940s". M.E. Sharpe, Inc..
- "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1932". Clerk.house.gov.
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