The Political Graveyard: Indiana: U.S. Senators

1914 Nov 3: Benjamin F. Shively (Dem), elected; Hugh T. Miller (Rep), defeated; Albert J. Beveridge (Progressive), defeated; Stephen Reynolds (Socialist), defeated; Sumner W. Haynes (Prohibition), defeated; James Matthews (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1916 Mar 14: Benjamin F. Shively, died in office.

1916 Nov 7: Harry S. New (Rep), elected; John W. Kern (Dem), defeated; Joseph Zimmerman (Socialist), defeated; Elwood Haynes (Prohibition), defeated; John N. Dyer (Progressive), defeated; Ira J. Decker (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1916 Nov 7: James E. Watson (Rep), elected; Thomas Taggart (Dem), defeated; Edward Henry (Socialist), defeated; William H. Hickman (Prohibition), defeated; John F. Clifford (Progressive), defeated.

1920 Nov 2: James E. Watson (Rep), elected; Thomas Taggart (Dem), defeated; Francis M. Wampler (Socialist), defeated; Francis J. Dillon (Farmer-Labor), defeated; Culla Bayhinger (Prohibition), defeated.

1922 Nov 7: Samuel M. Ralston (Dem), elected; Albert J. Beveridge (Rep), defeated.

1925 Oct 14: Samuel M. Ralston, died in office.

1926 Nov 2: Arthur R. Robinson (Rep), elected; Evans Woollen (Dem), defeated; Albert Stanley (Prohibition), defeated; William O. Fogleson (Socialist), defeated.

1926 Nov 2: James E. Watson (Rep), elected; Albert Stump (Dem), defeated; William H. Harris (Prohibition), defeated; Forrest Wallace (Socialist), defeated.

1928 Nov 6: Arthur R. Robinson (Rep), elected; Albert Stump (Dem), defeated; William H. Harris (Prohibition), defeated; Philip K. Reinbold (Socialist), defeated; Charles Ginsberg (Socialist Labor), defeated; William F. Jackson (Workers), defeated; John Zalind (National), defeated.

1932: James E. Watson (Rep), defeated; Lew O'Bannon (Dem), defeated.

1934 Nov 6: Sherman Minton (Dem), elected; Arthur R. Robinson (Rep), defeated; Forrest Wallace (Socialist), defeated; Albert Jackman (Prohibition), defeated; Wenzel Stocker (Communist), defeated.

1938 Nov 8: Frederick Van Nuys (Dem), elected; Raymond E. Willis (Rep), defeated; Herman L. Seeger (Prohibition), defeated; Louis E. Roebuck (Socialist), defeated; Miles Blansett (Communist), defeated.

1940 Nov 5: Raymond E. Willis (Rep), elected; Sherman Minton (Dem), defeated; Carl W. Thompson (Prohibition), defeated; John H. Kingsbury (Socialist), defeated.

1944 Jan 25: Frederick Van Nuys, died in office.

1944 Jan 28: Samuel D. Jackson, appointed.

1944 Nov 7: Homer E. Capehart (Rep), elected; Henry F. Schricker (Dem), defeated; George W. Holston (Prohibition), defeated; Marid B. Tomish (Socialist), defeated.

1944 Nov 7: William E. Jenner (Rep), elected; Cornelius O'Brien (Dem), defeated; Carl W. Thompson (Prohibition), defeated.

1946 Nov 5: William E. Jenner (Rep), elected; M. Clifford Townsend (Dem), defeated; Elmer D. Riggs (Prohibition), defeated; John Marion Morris (Socialist Labor), defeated; Elmer G. Johnson (Communist), defeated.

1952: Henry F. Schricker (Dem), defeated.

1958 Nov 4: Vance Hartke (Dem), elected; Harold W. Handley (Rep), defeated; John Stelle (Prohibition), defeated.

1962 Nov 6: Birch Bayh (Dem), elected; Homer E. Capehart (Rep), defeated.

1964: Donald Cogley Bruce (Rep), defeated in primary; Edgar D. Whitcomb (Rep), defeated in primary.

1964 Nov 3: Vance Hartke (Dem), elected; D. Russell Bontrager (Rep), defeated; J. Ralston Miller (Prohibition), defeated; Casimer Kanczuzewski (Socialist Labor), defeated.

1968 Nov 5: Birch Bayh (Dem), elected; William D. Ruckelshaus (Rep), defeated; L. Earl Malcom (Prohibition), defeated; Ralph Levitt (Socialist Workers), defeated.

1970 Nov 3: Vance Hartke (Dem), elected; Richard L. Roudebush (Rep), defeated.

1974: Philip Harold Hayes, defeated for nomination.

1974 Nov 5: Birch Bayh (Dem), elected; Richard G. Lugar (Rep), defeated; Don L. Lee (American), defeated.

1976: Edgar D. Whitcomb (Rep), defeated in primary.

1976 Nov 2: Richard G. Lugar (Rep), elected; Vance Hartke (Dem), defeated; Don L. Lee, defeated; David Lee Hoagland (U.S. Labor), defeated.

1980 Nov 4: Dan Quayle (Rep), elected; Birch Bayh (Dem), defeated.

1982 Nov 2: Richard G. Lugar (Rep), elected; Floyd Fithian (Dem), defeated; Raymond James (American), defeated.

1986 Nov 4: Dan Quayle (Rep), elected; Jill L. Long (Dem), defeated; Bradford L. Warren (Libertarian), defeated; Rockland R. Snyder (American), defeated.

1988 Nov 8: Richard G. Lugar (Rep), elected; Jack Wickes (Dem), defeated.

1990 Nov 6: Dan R. Coats (Rep), elected; Baron P. Hill (Dem), defeated; Stephen W. Dillon (Ind), defeated.

1992 Nov 3: Dan R. Coats (Rep), elected; Joseph H. Hogsett (Dem), defeated; Stephen W. Dillon (Libertarian), defeated; Raymond Tirado (New Alliance), defeated.

1994 Nov 8: Richard G. Lugar (Rep), elected; Jim Jontz (Dem), defeated; Barbara Bourland (Libertarian), defeated; Mary Catherine Barton (New Alliance), defeated.

1998 Nov 3: Evan Bayh (Dem), elected; Paul Helmke (Rep), defeated; Rebecca Sink-Burris (Libertarian), defeated.

2000 Nov 7: Richard G. Lugar (Rep), elected; David L. Johnson (Dem), defeated; Paul Hager (Libertarian), defeated.

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