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The 1932 United States Senate election in Iowa took place on November 8, 1932. Incumbent Republican Senator Smith Brookhart, a controversial progressive figure within the conservative Iowa Republican Party, was defeated in the June Republican primary by Henry A. Field.
The 1932 Iowa Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1932 United ... District 28 Republican Primary Election, 1932 Party Candidate Votes % Republican: W ...
In 1932 electoral frustration with the Great Depression and Prohibition led to the re-emergence of the Democratic Party in Iowa. Historically the party has held the Governor's office – 30 of Iowa's 41 governors have been Republicans.
From March 8 to May 20, 1932, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1932 United States presidential election.The nominee was selected through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1932 Republican National Convention held from June 14 to June 16, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois.
Among the Republican incumbents defeated in 1932 were Senate Majority Leader James Watson and five-term Senator Reed Smoot, an author of the controversial Smoot-Hawley tariff. [3] This was the first of four elections in which a Senate leader lost re-election, and the only time they were a Republican.
In 1932, he was chosen to deliver the keynote speech at the 1932 Republican National Convention, where fellow Iowa native Herbert Hoover was re-nominated for his failed re-election bid. [2] Once Franklin D. Roosevelt replaced Hoover in 1933, Dickinson distinguished himself by coming out early and often against the New Deal. [1]
A Republican, he was elected to two terms in the Iowa House of Representatives, serving from 1910 to 1914. [2] He represented the 38th District in the state Senate from 1914 to 1918. [3] He died in Waterloo on June 28, 1932, suffering a heart attack while giving a talk at the Hotel President. [3] [4]
Party Democratic: Republican: Popular vote 508,573: 455,145 Percentage 52.77%: 47.23% ... The 1932 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1932.