U.S. Senate election, 1932
The U.S. Senate election, 1932 was an election for the United States Senate which 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)
Senate contests in 1932 1 special election held due to death of William J. Harris (D-GA) 2 special election held due to death of Dwight W. Morrow (R-NJ)
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