1914 United States Senate election in Illinois
1914 United States Senate election in Illinois|
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Results by county Sherman: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Sullivan: 30–40% 40–50% 50–60% Robins: 30–40% 40–50% Tie: 40-50% |
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The 1914 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 3, 1914.[1]
Incumbent Republican senator Lawrence Yates Sherman, first elected to a partial term by the Illinois General Assembly in a special election the previous year, was reelected to a full term as U.S. senator by a popular vote.
Background
The primaries and general election coincided with those for House and those for state elections.[2] Primaries were held September 9, 1914.[2]
The 1914 United States Senate elections were the first to be held after the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect, and this was therefore the first Illinois U.S. Senate election to be held by a popular vote.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Ran
Declined to run
Results
Republican primary
Candidates
Results
Progressive primary
Candidates
Results
Socialist primary
Candidates
Results
General election
Candidates
- John M. Frances (Socialist Labor)
- Adolph Germer (Socialist), trade union organizer
- Raymond Robins (Progressive), economist, writer, and chairman of the Illinois Progressive Party state committee
- Lawrence Yates Sherman (Republican), incumbent U.S. senator
- Roger Charles Sullivan (Democratic), Cook County Democratic Party political boss and former the clerk of the Cook County Probate Court
- George W. Woolsey (Prohibition Party)
Results
See also
References
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