U.S. Senate, 1916 Election

General

Date: November 7, 1916
Cycle: 1916
Office: U.S. Senate
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
Frank B. Kellogg Man Republican 185,159 48.58 +17.74
Daniel W. Lawler Man Democrat 117,541 30.84
Willis G. Calderwood Man Prohibition 78,425 20.58

Kellogg was a former Rochester city attorney (1878-1881), Olmsted County Attorney (1882-1887), member of the Republican National Committee (1904-1912), and president of the American Bar Association (1912-1913).

Lawler was an attorney from St. Paul, former U.S. Attorney (1886-1891), and former Mayor of St. Paul (1908-1910). He was also the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator in 1893 and 1912, Democratic candidate for Governor in 1914, and Democratic nominee for the 4th CD in 1924.

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 1918 (on the National ticket). He was also a Farmer-Labor candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1924.

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1917 (p. 512).