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The 1922 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 7, 1922.
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![]() County results La Follette: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% | |||||||||||||||||
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Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette was re-elected to a fourth term in office over Democrat Jessie Jack Hooper. Off the strength of his landslide victory, La Follette launched a second campaign for President of the United States in 1924.
La Follette's opponent, the suffragette Jessie Jack Hooper, was among the first American women to ever run a campaign for the U.S. Senate.
La Follette spent much of the primary defending his opposition to American involvement in World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. He attacked President Warren Harding's administration and its proposed Four-Power Treaty as equally objectionable as the Versailles negotiations.[1]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Robert M. La Follette (incumbent) | 362,445 | 72.23% | |
Republican | William Ganfield | 139,327 | 27.77% | |
Total votes | 484,135 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jessie Jack Hooper | 16,663 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 16,663 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Prohibition | Adolph R. Bucknam | 1,282 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 1,282 | 100.00% |
Hooper's campaign was run by two women, Livia Peshkova and Gertrude Watkins, bolstered by women in the press, and often hosted in family living rooms. The campaign rallying cry was "Whoop for Hooper." Her election platform championed the League of Nations, veterans compensation, and world peace. Her husband was one of only two men who donated any money to her campaign.[3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Robert M. La Follette (incumbent) | 379,494 | 80.60% | ![]() | |
Democratic | Jessie Jack Hooper | 78,029 | 16.57% | ![]() | |
Prohibition | Adolph R. Bucknam | 11,254 | 2.39% | ![]() | |
Socialist Labor | Richard Koeppel | 1,656 | 0.35% | ![]() | |
Write-in | 386 | 0.08% | |||
Total votes | 470,819 | 100.00% | |||
Republican hold |
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