The 1928 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held on November 6, 1928. Incumbent

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Senator

George P. McLean George Payne McLean (October 7, 1857 – June 6, 1932) was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States senator from Connecticut. Biography McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary ( ...

was not a candidate for re-election. In his place, Republican State Senator

Frederic C. Walcott Frederic Collin Walcott (February 19, 1869April 27, 1949) was a United States senator from Connecticut. Biography Born in New York Mills, Oneida County, New York, the son of William Stuart Walcott and Emeline Alice Welch Walcott, Walcott atten ...

won the seat against former U.S. Representative

Augustine Lonergan Augustine Lonergan (May 20, 1874October 18, 1947) was a U.S. Senator and Representative from Connecticut. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a senator from 1933 to 1939. Biography Lonergan was born in Thompson, Connecticut, ...

General election

Candidates

, former U.S. Representative from

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*Martin F. Plunkett (Socialist) *

, State Senator from

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(Republican)

Results

Aftermath

Lonergan would win an election to Connecticut's other Senate seat in 1932; he and Walcott served as colleagues in the Senate from 1933 to 1935.

References

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...

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