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1958 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

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Field	Value
election_name	1958 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
country	Massachusetts
flag_year	1908
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1952 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
previous_year	1952
next_election	1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts
next_year	1962 (special)
election_date	November 4, 1958
image_size	x150px
image1	JFK 1952 portrait.jpg
nominee1	John F. Kennedy
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote1	1,362,926
percentage1	73.20%
image2	File:VincentCeleste.png
nominee2	Vincent Celeste
party2	Republican Party (United States)
popular_vote2	488,318
percentage2	26.23%
map_image	{{switcher
default	1
map_size	250px
map_caption	Kennedy:
Celeste:
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	John F. Kennedy
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	John F. Kennedy
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

|[[File:1958 United States Senate election in Massachusetts results map by county.svg|300px]] |County results |[[File:1958 United States Senate Election in Massachusetts by Municipality.svg|300px|]] |Municipality results Celeste:

The 1958 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 4, 1958. Democratic incumbent John F. Kennedy was reelected to a second six-year term, defeating Republican candidate Vincent J. Celeste.

Democratic primary

Candidates

John F. Kennedy, incumbent Senator since 1953

Results

Senator Kennedy was unopposed for renomination.

Republican primary

Candidates

Vincent J. Celeste, East Boston attorney and candidate for U.S. Representative in 1950 and 1952

Results

Celeste was unopposed for the Republican nomination.

General election

Candidates

Vincent J. Celeste, East Boston attorney and candidate for U.S. Representative in 1950 and 1952 (Republican)
Lawrence Gilfedder, perennial candidate (Socialist Labor)
John F. Kennedy, incumbent Senator since 1953 (Democratic)
Mark R. Shaw, perennial candidate (Prohibition)

Campaign

Kennedy was overwhelmingly popular in Massachusetts and the 1958 elections were a wave election favoring the Democratic Party. Celeste's campaign was poorly funded but the candidate worked 17-hour days, running his campaign out of his law offices and attempting to frame the race as one pitting a working-class child of Sicilian immigrants against "that millionaire Jack Kennedy."

The Kennedy campaign had bought and produced thousands of pieces of campaign material with the slogan "Be Proud of Your Vote!" but scrapped them after Celeste's nomination, as Senator Kennedy's father Joe thought the slogan could alienate Italian-Americans and divide the state on ethnic lines.

Results

Kennedy defeated Celeste by a margin of 874,608 votes; this represented the largest margin of victory in a statewide Massachusetts election up to that point.

References

(17 Feb 2015). "Vincent Celeste, at 90; JFK's US Senate opponent in '58". [[The Boston Globe]].
"John F. Kennedy".
"Our Campaigns - MA US Senate Race - Nov 04, 1958".

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