1924 United States Senate election in Illinois
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The 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1924.[1]
Incumbent Republican Medill McCormick was unseated in the Republican primary by Charles S. Deneen, who went on to win the general election.
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Election information
The primaries and general election coincided with those for other federal elections (president and House) and those for state elections.[1] The primaries were held April 8, 1924.[1]
This was the first election for this U.S. Senate seat to be held after the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women suffrage.
Democratic primary
Candidates
- William McKinley, former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives (not to be confused with the William B. McKinley that, at the time, occupied the other Illinois U.S. Senate seat)
- Albert A. Sprague, chairman of Consolidated Grocers Corporation, and member of the John Crerar Library board[2]
Results
| Democratic primary[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Albert A. Sprague | 169,285 | 62.67 | |
| Democratic | William McKinley | 100,859 | 37.34 | |
| style="background-color: Template:Write-in/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Write-in | Others | 6 | 0.00 |
| Total votes | 270,150 | 100 | ||
Republican primary
Candidates
- Charles S. Deneen, former governor of Illinois
- Newton Jenkins, lawyer and candidate for 27th Ward Chicago alderman in 1920[3]
- Medill McCormick, incumbent U.S. senator
- Adelbert McPherson
- Gilbert Gile Ogden
Results
Deneen won by a mere 0.69% margin of just 5,944 votes.[1]
| Republican primary[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Republican | Charles S. Deneen | 357,545 | 41.70 | |
| Republican | Medill McCormick (incumbent) | 351,601 | 41.01 | |
| Republican | Newton Jenkins | 114,239 | 13.32 | |
| Republican | Gilbert Gile Ogden | 18,002 | 2.10 | |
| Republican | Adelbert McPherson | 15,973 | 0.19 | |
| style="background-color: Template:Write-in/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Write-in | Others | 1 | 0.00 |
| Total votes | 857,361 | 100 | ||
Socialist primary
Candidates
- George Koop, perennial candidate[4]
Results
| Socialist primary[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Socialist | George Koop | 946 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 946 | 100 | ||
General election
Candidates
- Charles S. Deneen (Republican), former governor of Illinois
- J. Louis Engdahl (Workers), journalist and newspaper editor
- George Koop (Socialist), perennial candidate[4]
- Parke Longworth (independent)
- Lewis D. Spaulding (Commonwealth Land)
- Albert A. Sprague (Democratic), chairman of Consolidated Grocers Corporation, and member of the John Crerar Library board[2]
- Albert Wirth (Socialist Labor)
Results
| 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois[1][5] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Republican | Charles S. Deneen | 1,449,180 | 63.54 | |
| Democratic | Albert A. Sprague | 806,702 | 35.37 | |
| Socialist | George Koop | 18,708 | 0.82 | |
| Socialist Labor | Albert Wirth | 2,966 | 0.13 | |
| Workers Party | J. Louis Engdahl | 2,518 | 0.11 | |
| style="background-color: Template:Commonwealth Land Party (United States)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | [[Commonwealth Land Party (United States)|Template:Commonwealth Land Party (United States)/meta/shortname]] | Lewis D. Spaulding | 391 | 0.02 |
| Independent | Parke Longworth | 382 | 0.02 | |
| Majority | 642,478 | 28.17 | ||
| Voter turnout | % | |||
| Republican hold | ||||
Aftermath
On February 25, 1925, as he was preparing to leave office, McCormick died in what is considered to have been a suicide (though the suicidal nature of his death was not known to the public, contemporarily). His reelection loss is believed to have contributed to his suicide.[6][7][8][9][10] McCormick's widow Ruth Hanna McCormick would go on to defeat Deneen in the 1930 Republican primary.[9]
See also
References
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