U.S. Senate, 1918 Election

General

Date: November 5, 1918
Cycle: 1918
Office: U.S. Senate
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Knute Nelson Incumbent Man Republican 206,555 60.07 +20.15
Willis G. Calderwood Man National 137,274 39.93

Senator Nelson was reelected to a fifth term. This election is one of four in Minnesota history without a Democratic candidate (1928, 1936, 1936-special). The Democratic state executive committee unanimously endorsed Nelson. Nelson died in office on April 28, 1923.

Calderwood was a resident of Minneapolis, state chair of the Prohibition Party, Prohibition nominee for HD 30 in 1894, for HD 39 in 1904, 1906, 1908, and 1910, for the at-large U.S. House seat in 1912, for Governor in 1914, and for the U.S. Senate in 1916. He was also a Farmer-Labor candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1924.

Sources

  • Wilmar Tribune, November 20, 1918 (p. 4).