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(Top) 1 Democratic primary 1.1 Candidates 1.2 Results 2 Republican primary 2.1 Candidates 2.2 Results 3 General election 3.1 Candidates 3.2 Results 4 References

1944 United States Senate election in Missouri

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Nominee	Forrest C. Donnell	Roy McKittrick
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	778,778	776,790
Percentage	49.95%	49.82%

County results
Donnell: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%
McKittrick: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%

U.S. senator before election

Bennett Champ Clark
Democratic

Elected U.S. senator

Forrest C. Donnell
Republican

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The 1944 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 7, 1944 in Missouri. Incumbent Democratic Senator Bennett Champ Clark was defeated in the primary by Roy McKittrick, who went on to lose the general election to Republican nominee Forrest C. Donnell. Donnell outperformed presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, who lost the state with 48.4% of the vote in the presidential election.

Democratic primary[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Bennett Champ Clark, incumbent Senator since 1933
Roy McKittrick, Attorney General of Missouri

Results[edit]

Democratic primary August 1, 1944^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Roy McKittrick	172,566	52.73
	Democratic	Bennett Champ Clark (incumbent)	154,669	47.27
Total votes			327,235	100

Republican primary[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Forrest C. Donnell, Governor of Missouri
H. Grosby, physician^[2]
Charles P. Noell, lawyer^[2]
Charles E. Rendlen, lawyer^[2]
Charles Shaw, former Mayor of Clayton^[2]
Howard V. Stephens, president of Johnson-Stephen and Shinkle Shoe Company and former member of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners^[2]
William McKinley Thomas, International Shoe Company employee^[2]

Results[edit]

Republican primary August 1, 1944^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Forrest C. Donnell	147,762	49.58
	Republican	Howard V. Stephens	64,301	21.58
	Republican	Charles Shaw	43,616	14.64
	Republican	Charles E. Rendlen	20,412	6.85
	Republican	Charles P. Noell	14,847	4.98
	Republican	William McKinley Thomas	4,284	1.44
	Republican	H. Grosby	2,786	0.93
Total votes			298,008	100

General election[edit]

Candidates[edit]

William Wesley Cox, state chairman and nominee for President in 1920 (Socialist Labor)
Forrest C. Donnell, Governor of Missouri (Republican)
Roy McKittrick, Attorney General of Missouri (Democratic)
D. B. Preisler (Socialist)

Results[edit]

1944 United States Senate election in Missouri^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Forrest C. Donnell	778,778	49.95%	+10.80
	Democratic	Roy McKittrick	776,790	49.82%	−10.87
	Socialist	D. B. Preisler	3,320	0.21%	+0.07
	Socialist Labor	William Wesley Cox	215	0.01%	−0.01
Majority			1,988	0.13%
Turnout			1,559,103
	Republican gain from Democratic		Swing

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Official Manual of the State of Missouri 1945 - 1946. Missouri Secretary of State's Office. 1946. p. 412. Retrieved December 12, 2022.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Careers of Seven Republicans Seeking Nomination for U.S. Senate in Coming Primary". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. July 15, 1944. p. 5A. Retrieved December 12, 2022 – via State Historical Society of Missouri.

^ Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (March 1, 1945). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 1944" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 21.

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