1949 United States Senate special election in New York

none March 2026 September 2023 1949 United States Senate special election in New York New York Flag of New York (1909–2020).svg presidential no 1944 United States Senate election in New York 1944 1950 United States Senate election in New York 1950 November 8, 1949 150x150px Herbert Lehman (D-NY) (cropped) (cropped).jpg Herbert H. Lehman Democratic Party (US) Liberal Party of New York 2,582,438 51.99% File:John Foster Dulles Nov 49-cropped.jpg John Foster Dulles Republican Party (United States) 2,384,381 48.01% File:1949 United States Senate special election in New York results map by county.svg 300px County resultsLehman: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584CDE 70–80% Dulles: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #A80000 >90% Senator John Foster Dulles Republican Party (United States) Herbert H. Lehman Democratic Party (United States) The United States Senate special election of 1949 in New York was held on November 8, 1949. On June 28, 1949, incumbent senator Robert F. Wagner resigned due to ill health. On July 7, John Foster Dulles was appointed by Governor Thomas Dewey to fill the vacancy temporarily.July 8, 1949 Dulles Appointed Senator https://www.nytimes.com/1949/07/08/archives/dulles-appointed-senator-lehman-weighs-candidacy-dewey-choice-not.html subscription The New York Times The Republican State Committee nominated Dulles to succeed himself. The Democratic State Committee nominated former Governor Herbert H. Lehman. The Liberal Party endorsed Lehman. The American Labor Party made no nominations and urged its members not to vote for any candidate. The Democratic/Liberal ticket was elected and Dulles was defeated.December 15, 1949 THE OFFICIAL COUNT: LEHMAN BY 198,057 https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB071EF63559157A93C7A81789D95F4D8485F9 subscription The New York Times Background Longtime incumbent Senator Robert F. Wagner resigned effective June 29, 1949, citing ill health. Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed John Foster Dulles, his foreign policy advisor, to fill the vacant seat until a successor could be duly elected, and a special election to complete Wagner's term in office was scheduled for November 8, 1949, to coincide with the regularly scheduled state election. Democratic Alex Rose, David Dubinsky, Adolf A. Berle, Americans for Democratic Action, and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union pushed for Herbert H. Lehman to seek the Democratic nomination.Soyer 2012 174 General election Candidates Herbert H. Lehman, former Governor of New York (Democratic and Liberal) John Foster Dulles, incumbent Senator (appointed by Governor Dewey) and diplomat (Republican) Campaigns Dulles accused Lehman of working with communists while leading the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and for accepting the support of the American Labor Party in previous elections. He also incorrectly claimed that the ALP also nominated Lehman.Soyer 2012 175 Vito Marcantonio sought to have Henry A. Wallace run as the American Labor Party's nominee, which would have aided Marcantonio in the concurrent New York City mayoral election, but Wallace declined.Schmidt 1960 292 Results The number of votes Lehman received on the Liberal line was greater than his margin of victory.Soyer 2012 176 1949 U.S. Senate special election in New Yorkhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=36431 NY US Senate Special Our Campaigns 11 March 2020 Democratic Party (United States) Herbert H. Lehman 2,155,763 43.40% Liberal Party of New York Herbert H. Lehman 426,675 8.59% Total Herbert H. Lehman 2,582,438 51.99% Republican Party (United States) John Foster Dulles (incumbent) 2,384,381 48.01% 4,966,819 100.00% References Works cited Schmidt Karl Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948 Syracuse University Press 1960 https://archive.org/details/henryawallacequi0000karl Soyer Daniel 'Support the Fair Deal in the Nation; Abolish the Raw Deal in the City': The Liberal Party in 1949 New York History Cornell University Press 2012 93 2 147–81 10.2307/23645398 23645398 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23645398 New York 1949 New York 1949 1949 Special New York Special United States Senate Special United States Senate 1949