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
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