| Election Name: | 1922 United States Senate election in Texas |
| Country: | Texas |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1916 United States Senate election in Texas |
| Previous Year: | 1916 |
| Next Election: | 1928 United States Senate election in Texas |
| Next Year: | 1928 |
| Election Date: | November 7, 1922 |
| Nominee1: | Earle Mayfield |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote1: | 264,260 |
| Percentage1: | 66.90% |
| Nominee2: | George Peddy (write-in) |
| Party2: | Independent Democratic |
| Alliance2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 130,744 |
| Percentage2: | 33.10% |
| U.S. Senator | |
| Before Election: | Charles Culberson |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Earle Mayfield |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1922 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 7, 1922. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Charles Culberson ran for re-election to a fifth term, but lost the Democratic primary.[1] A runoff was held between former Governor Pa Ferguson and Railroads Commissioner Earle Bradford Mayfield.
In the runoff, Mayfield, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission defeated Ferguson for the Democratic nomination, then tantamount to election in Texas as a legacy of the American Civil War. Mayfield had the support of the resurgent Ku Klux Klan, and anti-Klan activists in the Democratic Party including George Peddy were unable to have him stripped of the nomination.[2] Peddy agreed to run against Mayfield as the candidate of the "Independent Democrats," members of the party who opposed the Klan.[3] [4] The Texas Republican Party also backed Peddy, but after a lengthy court battle, they were unable to have him included on the general election ballot as their official nominee.[5] Peddy ran on an explicitly anti-Klan platform.
Peddy ran a write-in campaign as the candidate of the Independent Democrats and Republicans.[6] Peddy also ran with the endorsements of Senator Culberson and President Warren G. Harding.[7] In the general election, he ran a surprisingly strong race and held Mayfield to a smaller margin than was usual for Texas Democrats, but Mayfield defeated him 264,260 votes (66.9%) to 130,744 (33.1%).[8] Peddy challenged Mayfield's election, and the subsequent Senate investigation prevented Mayfield from taking his seat as scheduled on March 4, 1923.[2] Mayfield assumed his seat on December 3, 1923,[9] [10] and was sworn in pending a resolution to Peddy's challenge, which was ultimately denied on February 4, 1925.[11]