United States Senate elections, 1932

United States Senate elections, 1932

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The U.S. Senate election of 1932 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)

enate contests in 1932

See also

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


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