1912–13 United States Senate elections: Difference between revisions

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| [[Jonathan Bourne Jr. (politician)|Jonathan Bourne Jr.]]

* {{Party stripe|Other}}[[Jonathan Bourne Jr. (politician)|Jonathan Bourne Jr.]] (Popular Government) 19.41%

[[Henry F. Ashurst]] was elected to the [[Arizona House of Representatives|Territorial House of Representatives]] in 1897. He was re-elected in 1899, and became the territory's youngest [[Speaker (politics)|speaker]]. In 1902, he was elected to the [[Arizona Senate|Territorial Senate]]. In 1911, Ashurst presided over Arizona's [[Constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]].<ref name="Times obit">{{Cite news |date=June 1, 1962 |title=Henry Fountain Ashurst Dead; Former Senator from Arizona |pages=27 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> During the convention, he positioned himself for a U.S. Senate seat by avoiding the political fighting over various clauses in the constitution which damaged his rivals.<ref name="Dean of Inconsistency">{{Cite journal |last=Johnston |first=Alva |date=December 25, 1937 |title=The Dean of Inconsistency |journal=[[The Saturday Evening Post]] |volume=210 |pages=23, 38–40}}</ref>

Democrat [[Willard Saulsbury Jr.]] had been a member of the [[Democratic National Committee]] since 1908 and had run for U.S. senator in [[1899 United States Senate election in Delaware|1899]], [[1901 United States Senate election in Delaware|1901]], [[1903 United States Senate special elections in Delaware|1903]], [[1905 United States Senate election in Delaware|1905]], [[1907 United States Senate election in Delaware|1907]], and [[1911 United States Senate election in Delaware|1911]], but Republicans controlled the state legislature and he was unsuccessful. In 1913, however, Democrats were in control of the legislature, Saulsbury was the preference of most Democrats, and he obtained the required majority January 29, 1913, after several days of balloting. This election was the first time since [[1883 United States Senate election in Delaware|1883]] that a Democrat won a full term for this Senate seat in Delaware.

| flag_year = 1907

| flag_year = 1907

Thompson would only serve one term, losing [[1918 United States Senate election in Kansas|re-election in 1918]]. As of 20222023, this is the last time the Democrats won the Class 2 Senate seat in Kansas. This represents the longest current winning streak of either party for a single Senate seat.

Curtis' political career, meanwhile, would rebound, as he was elected to [[1914 United States Senate election in Kansas|Kansas' other US Senate seat]], first by defeating Kansas' senior senator [[Joseph L. Bristow]] in the Republican primary, and then winning re-election nonconsecutively to the U.S Senate by a very narrow margin over two opponents, becoming the first Kansan to be popularly elected to the U.S Senate in a historic first. Curtis would serve in the Senate for three terms before resigning to become U.S. Vice President in March 1929, the first [[Native Americans in the United States|AmericanNative IndianAmerican]] to serve in that office.

| vote_type1blank = Members'{{Nowrap|Senate ballot}}

| popular_vote11data1 = '''10531 (83.8%)'''

| popular_vote21data2 = 286 (16.2%)

| map_image2data2 = 23 (23.7%)

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| popular_vote1 = '''91112,485'''

| percentage1 = '''50.6%{{percentage|112485|198205|2}}'''

| popular_vote2 = 8273,300

| percentage2 = 45.6%{{percentage|73300|198205|2}}

| votes = 72,853740

[[File:ThomasCATRON, BentonT.B. CatronSENATOR LCCN2016858197 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Senator [[Thomas B. Catron]]|125px]]

New Mexico became a new state January 6, 1912, with senators in classes 1 (ending 1917) and 2 (ending 1913). On March 27, 1912, the state elected its initial senators on the eighth ballot:<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 28, 1912 |title=NEW MEXICO SENATORS. |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://nyti.ms/2UjIjia |access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref> Republican [[Thomas B. Catron]], an early advocate for New Mexico statehood who had marshaled the territorial Republican Party to lobby Republicans at the national level for New Mexico's admission to the Union,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Prince |first=Le Baron Bradford |url=https://archive.org/details/newmexicosstrug01pringoog |title=New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood |publisher=New Mexican Printing Company |year=1910 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newmexicosstrug01pringoog/page/n101 91]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Larson |first=Robert W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6OlME56WpfAC&q=%22thomas+b+catron%22+statehood&pg=PA98 |title=New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912 |date=August 15, 2013 |isbn=9780826329479 |page=98|publisher=UNM Press }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=McCord |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cM-bMFblxAC&q=%22thomas+b+catron%22+statehood&pg=PA52 |title=Santa Fe Living Treasures: Our Elders, Our Hearts |year=2009 |isbn=9780865347205 |page=52|publisher=Sunstone Press }}</ref> and Republican [[Albert B. Fall]], a powerful attorney, former territorial attorney general, future [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]], and instigator of the [[Teapot Dome scandal]])

One term Democrat [[Robert Latham Owen|Robert L. Owen]] was re-elected over token opposition from [[Governor of Oklahoma]] [[Charles N. Haskell]] in the Democratic primary and perennial Republican candidate [[Joseph T. Dickerson]].

| candidate = [[Joseph T. Dickerson]]

One-term Republican [[Jonathan Bourne Jr. (politician)|Jonathan Bourne Jr.]] had championed direct-election of senators but lost renomination as a Republican. He then ran in the popular election as a "Popular Government" candidate, but also lost re-election. Democratic [[Mayor of Portland, Oregon|Mayor of Portland]] [[Harry Lane]] was elected.

The ballot was cluttered. In addition to the Lane and [[Ben Selling]], candidate of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, progressive Republicans had other electoral alternatives, including the candidate and the incumbent senator [[Jonathan Bourne Jr. (politician)|Jonathan Bourne Jr.]], who had failed to win the renomination of the Republican party and ran as the "Popular Government" nominee as a result. Meanwhile, [[Benjamin F. Ramp]] stood for the [[Socialist Party of Oregon|Socialists]] and yet another candidate was the nominee of the [[Prohibition Party]].<ref name="Leip">{{Cite web |editor-last=Leip |editor-first=Dave |title=1912 Senatorial General Election Results - Oregon, Atlas of US Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=41&year=1912&f=0&off=3&elect=0 |via=www.uselectionatlas.org}}</ref> Each of these six candidates took more than 5% of the vote — a fact which enabled the Lane to win election with a [[plurality (voting)|plurality]] of the vote in solidly Republican Oregon.<ref name=Leip /> Intent on proving himself a man of the people, Harry Lane set what might be a record for campaign frugality in his victorious effort, with his entire race run for $75 plus travel expenses.<ref name="Johnston30">{{Cite book |last=Johnston |first=Robert D. |title=The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon. |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |year=2003 |location=Princeton, NJ |page=30}}</ref>

| candidate = [[Jonathan Bourne Jr. (politician)|Jonathan Bourne Jr.]] (Incumbent)

There was a Democratic Primary July 27, 1912. Morris ShppardSheppard, [[C. B. Randell]], [[Mat Zollner]], and [[Jake Wolters]] were candidates. Sheppard received a plurality of the (approximately 8,000) votesvote.<ref>{{Cite book |year=1913 |title=Journal of the Senate of Texas begin the Regular Session of the Thirty-Third Legislature |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015068359564?urlappend=%3Bseq=170 |language=en |location=[[Austin, Texas]] |publisher=Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., Printers |pages=162–163|hdl=2027/mdp.39015068359564?urlappend=%3Bseq=170 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kingston |first=Mike |title=The Texas Almanac's Political History of Texas |last2=Attlesey |first2=Sam |last3=Crawford |first3=Mary G. |publisher=Eakin Press |year=1992 |isbn=0-89015-855-X |edition=1st |location=Austin, Texas |pages=118–121 |language=en}}</ref>