U.S. Senate, 1922 Election

Primary Republican

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Date: June 19, 1922
Cycle: 1922
Office: U.S. Senate
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Frank B. Kellogg Incumbent Man Republican 216,816 58.76 +25.22
Ernest Lundeen Man Republican 123,765 33.54
Richard E. Titus Man Republican 28,399 7.70

Senator Kellogg was renominated.

Lundeen was an attorney from Minneapolis, former state Representative (HD 42, 1911-1915), and former U.S. Representative (CD 05, 1917-1919). Lundeen ran for the U.S. House multiple times and would later serve two more terms as a Farmer-Laborite (AL, 1933-1935; CD 03, 1935-1937) before getting elected to the U.S. Senate (1937-1940). He was also a candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1924.

Titus was an attorney from Minneapolis, author, and prohibitionist.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1923 (p. 281).