1914_United_States_Senate_election_in_Indiana

1914 United States Senate election in Indiana

1914 United States Senate election in Indiana

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The 1914 United States Senate special election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1914. Incumbent Senator Benjamin F. Shively was re-elected to a second term in office over Hugh Thomas Miller and Albert J. Beveridge. This was the first popular election for United States Senator held in Indiana, as required by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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General election

Candidates

  • Albert J. Beveridge, former Republican U.S. Senator (Progressive)
  • Sumner W. Haynes (Prohibition)
  • James Matthews (Socialist Labor)
  • Hugh Thomas Miller, director of the Union Trust Company and former Lieutenant Governor (Republican)
  • Stephen N. Reynolds (Socialist)
  • Benjamin F. Shively, incumbent Senator since 1909 (Democratic)

Results

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1915). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1914" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 16.
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