U.S. Senate, 1916 Election

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Date: June 19, 1916
Cycle: 1916
Office: U.S. Senate
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Frank B. Kellogg Man Republican 73,818 40.45 +10.37
Adolph O. (A.O.) Eberhart Man Republican 54,890 30.08
Moses E. Clapp Incumbent Man Republican 27,668 15.16
Charles A. Lindbergh Man Republican 26,094 14.30

Senator Clapp became the third incumbent U.S. Senator to lose their seat joining Democrat James Shields in 1859 and Democrat Charles Towne in 1901.

Kellogg was a former Rochester city attorney (1878-1881), Olmsted County Attorney (1882-1887), member of the Republican National Committee (1904-1912), and president of the American Bar Association (1912-1913).

Eberthart was an attorney and bank director in Mankato, former state Senator (SD 11, 1903-1907), Lieutenant Governor (1907-1909), and Governor (1909-1915).

Lindbergh was a former prosecuting attorney of Morrison County (1891-1893), sitting U.S. Representative (CD 06, 1907-1917), Republican candidate for Governor in 1918, and Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S. Senate in 1923. Lindberg was backed by the Nonpartisan League.

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Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1917 (p. 191).