U.S. Senate, 1911 Election

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Date: January 17, 1911
Cycle: 1911
Office: U.S. Senate
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Moses E. Clapp Incumbent Man Republican 161 90.45 +83.15
Richard (R.T., Dick) O'Connor Man Democrat 13 7.30
Winfield S. Hammond Man Democrat 3 1.69
Thomas Van Lear Man Public Ownership 1 0.56

Election by the state legislature with each chamber voting separately. Clapp won 55 of 62 votes in the state Senate with four for O'Connor and three for Hammond. Clapp won 106 of 116 votes in the state House with nine for O'Connor and one for Van Lear. The legislature declared Clapp the duly elected U.S. Senator in a joint convention on January 18, 1911.

Senator Clapp was elected to a third term.

O'Connor was a resident of St. Paul, former Ramsey County Clerk of Courts, U.S Marshal for the District of Minnesota (1895-1899), president of the St. Paul Globe Company, member of the brokerage firm O'Connor & Van Bergen, and head of the St. Paul Democratic Party.

Hammond was a resident of St. James, former prosecuting attorney of Watonwan County (1895-1896, 1900-1905), and Democratic U.S. Representative (CD 02, 1907-1915). He was later elected Governor (1915).

Van Lear was the Public Ownership candidate for mayor of Minneapolis in 1910. He would serve as Mayor of Minneapolis from 1916 to 1918.

Sources

  • Journal of the Senate of the Thirty-Seventh Session of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota, 1911 (p. 72. 82). The Minneapolis Morning Tribune, January 18, 1911 (p. 6).