Election Name: | 1920 United States Senate election in Iowa |
Country: | Iowa |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | November 2, 1920 |
Previous Election: | 1914 United States Senate election in Iowa |
Previous Year: | 1914 |
Next Election: | 1926 United States Senate elections in Iowa |
Next Year: | 1926 |
Image1: | File:Albert Baird Cummins circa 1917 (1).jpg |
Nominee1: | Albert B. Cummins |
Party1: | Republican Party (US) |
Popular Vote1: | 528,499 |
Percentage1: | 61.42% |
Nominee2: | Claude R. Porter |
Party2: | Democratic Party (US) |
Popular Vote2: | 322,015 |
Percentage2: | 37.42% |
Map Size: | 250px |
U.S. senator | |
Before Election: | Albert B. Cummins |
Before Party: | Republican Party (US) |
After Election: | Albert B. Cummins |
After Party: | Republican Party (US) |
The 1920 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 2, 1920. Incumbent Senator Albert B. Cummins was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating challenges from Smith W. Brookhart in the Republican primary and Claude R. Porter in the general election.
Albert B. Cummins was a progressive senator from an earlier generation who distrusted both corporate interests and trade unions. Brookhart campaigned against railroad regulations Cummins had co-authored, the Esch–Cummins Act, which Brookhart claimed did too little to wrest ownership and control of railroads away from Wall Street interests.[1] Brookhart attempted to register rank-and-file blue-collar workers as Republicans so that they could vote for him in the primary,[1] which prompted Cummins to associate Brookhart with radical workers movements such as "the Socialists, reds and Industrial Workers of the World."[2] Cummins was sidelined by illness in the weeks leading up to the primary but defeated Brookhart.[2] [3]