A special election was held in after the Democratic incumbent,

Frank Le Blond Kloeb Frank Le Blond Kloeb (June 16, 1890 – March 11, 1976), also known as Frank L. Kloeb, was a Democratic United States Representative from Ohio and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of O ...

, resigned when he was appointed as a district court judge on the

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. Walter H. Albaugh, the winner, was elected to finish Kloeb's term. The special election resulted in a gain for Republicans, picking up a seat that they had not held since five years prior to the election. The 4th district remained in solidly Republican hands after this election, and has not had a Democratic representative since Le Bond Kloeb's resignation. The winner of this election, Walter H. Albaugh, was not a candidate for the next election. Robert F. Jones, also a

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, won the election by 24.5 percentage points, a far greater margin than that of Albaugh's nine-point margin during this special election.

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