1924 United States Senate election in Illinois

none March 2026 December 2020 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois Illinois 1915 presidential no 1918 United States Senate election in Illinois 1918 1930 United States Senate election in Illinois 1930 November 4, 1924 x150px File:Senator-elect Chas. S. Deneen of Ill. at his desk, 2-3-25 LCCN2016839253 (cropped).jpg Charles S. Deneen Republican Party (United States) 1,449,180 63.54% Albert A. Sprague (1) (3x4a).jpg Albert A. Sprague Democratic Party (United States) 806,702 35.37% 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois results map by county.svg 160px County resultsDeneen: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90%Sprague: #7996e2 50–60% U.S. senator Medill McCormick Republican Party (United States) Charles S. Deneen Republican Party (United States) The 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1924.OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, NOV. 4, 1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923-1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923-1924 SPECIAL ELECTIONS, 1923-1924 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, APRIL 8, 1924 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 8, 1924 https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1924/PE%20and%20GE%201924.pdf Illinois State Board of Elections 19 December 2020 February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes Incumbent Republican Medill McCormick was unseated in the Republican primary by Charles S. Deneen, who went on to win the general election. The primaries and general election coincided with those for other federal elections (president and House) and those for state elections. The primaries were held April 8, 1924. This was the first election for this U.S. Senate seat to be held after the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women suffrage. Democratic primary Candidates William McKinley, former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives (not to be confused with the William B. McKinley that, at the time, occupied the other Illinois U.S. Senate seat) Albert A. Sprague, chairman of Consolidated Grocers Corporation, and member of the John Crerar Library boardSprague, Albert A. : Photographic Archive : The University of Chicago http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-07748.xml photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Photographic Library July 2026 InternetArchiveBot Results Democratic primary Democratic Party (United States) Albert A. Sprague 169,285 62.67 Democratic Party (United States) William McKinley 100,859 37.34 Write-in Others 6 0.00 270,150 100 Republican primary Candidates Charles S. Deneen, former governor of Illinois Newton Jenkins, lawyer and candidate for 27th Ward Chicago alderman in 1920NEWTON JENKINS, 55, LAWYER AND SOLDIER; Defeated for Mayor of Chicago and United States Senator https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/10/17/85600447.html?pageNumber=15 The New York Times 16 December 2020 en 17 October 1942 Medill McCormick, incumbent U.S. senator Adelbert McPherson Gilbert Giles Ogden Results Deneen won by a mere 0.69% margin of just 5,944 votes. Republican primary Republican Party (United States) Charles S. Deneen 357,545 41.70 Republican Party (United States) Medill McCormick (incumbent) 351,601 41.01 Republican Party (United States) Newton Jenkins 114,239 13.32 Republican Party (United States) Gilbert Gile Ogden 18,002 2.10 Republican Party (United States) Adelbert McPherson 15,973 0.19 Write-in Others 1 0.00 857,361 100 Socialist primary Candidates George Koop, perennial candidateOur Campaigns - Candidate - George Koop https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=59861 www.ourcampaigns.com 17 December 2020 Results Socialist primary Socialist Party of America George Koop 946 100 946 100 General election Candidates Charles S. Deneen (Republican), former governor of Illinois J. Louis Engdahl (Workers), journalist and newspaper editor George Koop (Socialist), perennial candidate Parke Longworth (independent) Lewis D. Spaulding (Commonwealth Land) Albert A. Sprague (Democratic), chairman of Consolidated Grocers Corporation, and member of the John Crerar Library board Albert Wirth (Socialist Labor) Results 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1924election.pdf Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1924 Clerk.house.gov September 1, 2019 Republican Party (United States) Charles S. Deneen 1,449,180 63.54 Democratic Party (United States) Albert A. Sprague 806,702 35.37 Socialist Party of America George Koop 18,708 0.82 Socialist Labor Party of America Albert Wirth 2,966 0.13 Workers Party of America J. Louis Engdahl 2,518 0.11 Commonwealth Land Party (United States) Lewis D. Spaulding 391 0.02 Independent politician Parke Longworth 382 0.02 642,478 28.17 2,280,847 Republican Party (United States) Aftermath On February 25, 1925, as he was preparing to leave office, McCormick died in what is considered to have been a suicide (though the suicidal nature of his death was not known to the public, contemporarily). His reelection loss is believed to have contributed to his suicide.https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2006/10/illinois_hall_o_28.html Illinois Hall of Fame: Ruth Hanna McCormick Rhoads Mark October 30, 2006 Illinois Review January 4, 2019 January 5, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190105094317/https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2006/10/illinois_hall_o_28.html deadhttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,751256,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111122071441/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,751256,00.html dead November 22, 2011 National Affairs: Medill McCormick March 9, 1925 Time magazine January 9, 2011Hill Ray The Senate's Dandy: James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois - The Knoxville Focus https://knoxfocus.com/archives/the-senates-dandy-james-hamilton-lewis-of-illinois/ The Knoxville Focus 16 December 2020 16 December 2012Miller Kristie Ruth Hanna McCormick and the Senatorial Election of 1930 Illinois Historical Journal 1988 81 3 191–210 40192065 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40192065 0748-8149M000369 please McCormick's widow Ruth Hanna McCormick would go on to defeat Deneen in the 1930 Republican primary. See also 1924 United States Senate elections References 1924 Illinois United States Senate