1932 United States Senate election in Missouri
The 1932 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 8, 1932, in Missouri. Incumbent Democratic Senator Harry B. Hawes did not seek re-election, and Democratic candidate Bennett Champ Clark was elected with 63.26% of the vote over former Mayor of St. Louis Henry Kiel. Clark slightly underperformed Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won 63.69% of the vote in the presidential election. He also notably carried the exact same counties Roosevelt carried in the Presidential Election

Hawes resigned his seat on February 3, 1933, and Clark was appointed to the vacancy before his full term began. Democratic primary

Candidates
 James W. Byrnes, president of the Missouri Association Against Prohibition
 Bennett Champ Clark, lawyer, former Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives, and son of Champ Clark
 Charles M. Hay, attorney and leading prohibitionist
 Charles M. Howell, insurance lobbyist
 Robert H. Merryman, lawyer

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
 Pearl Abernathy, real estate dealer
 B. F. Beazell, former Bureau of Prohibition agent
 Henry Kiel, president of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners and former Mayor of St. Louis
 Robert J. Kratky, attorney
 Blodgett Priest, attorney
 Dewey Jackson Short, former U.S. Representative from Springfield

Results

Other primaries

Communist
The Communist Party nominated Julius Pollack. Prohibition

Socialist

Socialist Labour

General election

References

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