The 1944 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 7, 1944 in Missouri. Incumbent Democratic Senator Bennett Champ Clark was defeated in the primary by Roy McKittrick, who went on to lose the general election to Republican nominee Forrest C. Donnell, the Governor of Missouri. Donnell outperformed presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, who lost the state with 48.4% of the vote in the presidential election. The state's other senator Harry S. Truman was also running for Vice President with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the same ballot, and during the campaign, Donnell stated he would not appoint a successor for Truman regardless of the outcome of his own race as he prioritized fairness over political pressure from his own party, believing the state's next elected Governor should appoint Truman's successor. Donnell was also elected to the Senate seat once held by his former law partner Selden Spencer.
Democratic primary Candidates Bennett Champ Clark, incumbent Senator since 1933 Roy McKittrick, Attorney General of Missouri
Results
Republican primary Candidates Forrest C. Donnell, Governor of Missouri H. Grosby, physician Charles P. Noell, lawyer Charles E. Rendlen, lawyer Charles Shaw, former Mayor of Clayton Howard V. Stephens, president of Johnson-Stephen and Shinkle Shoe Company and former member of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners William McKinley Thomas, International Shoe Company employee
Results
General election
Candidates
William Wesley Cox, state chairman and nominee for President in 1920 (Socialist Labor) Forrest C. Donnell, Governor of Missouri (Republican) Roy McKittrick, Attorney General of Missouri (Democratic) D. B. Preisler (Socialist)
Results
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