The 1932 United States Senate election in Washington was held on November 8, 1932. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator
Wesley Livsey Jones ran for a fifth term in office, but was defeated by former State Representative
Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of par ...
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Bone defeated Jones in a landslide. The percentage margin of 27.9 points may be the largest for any incumbent major-party nominee in Senate history.
Jones died on November 19, less than two weeks after the election.
Blanket primary
Candidates
Democratic
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Lloyd Black, former Snohomish County prosecutor
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Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of par ...
, former Farmer-Labor State Representative from Tacoma
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Edwin J. Brown, former mayor of Seattle (1922–1926)
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Stephen J. Chadwick, former Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court
Republican
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Adam Beeler
Adam Madison Beeler (October 11, 1879 – March 25, 1947) was a justice of the Washington Supreme Court from 1930 until 1932. Beeler served as a King County Superior Court Judge between April 6, 1928 and September 30, 1930, when he was appointe ...
, Justice of the
Washington Supreme Court
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Wesley Livsey Jones, incumbent Senator since 1909
Results
General election
Candidates
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Homer Bone
Homer Truett Bone (January 25, 1883 – March 11, 1970) was an American attorney and politician in Washington state, where he settled in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma as a youth with his family from Indiana. He ran as a candidate for a variety of par ...
, former State Representative from Tacoma (Democratic)
* Frederick R. Burch (Liberty)
* Andrew T. Hunter (Socialist)
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Wesley Livsey Jones, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1908 (Republican)
* Alex Noral (Communist)
Results
See also
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1932 United States Senate elections
The 1932 United States Senate elections coincided with Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory over incumbent Herbert Hoover in the presidential election.
With the Hoover administration widely blamed for the Great Depression, Repub ...
Notes
References
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
United States Senate
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