The primaries and general election coincided with those for other federal elections (president and House) and those for state elections.[1] The primaries were held April 8, 1924.[1]
This was the first election for this U.S. Senate seat to be held after the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted women suffrage.
Democratic primary[]
Candidates[]
William B. McKinley, former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives (not to be confused with the William B. McKinley that, at the time, occupied the other Illinois U.S. Senate seat)
, chairman of Consolidated Grocers Corporation, and member of the John Crerar Library board[2]
(Democratic), chairman of Consolidated Grocers Corporation, and member of the John Crerar Library board[2]
Albert Wirth (Socialist Labor)
Results[]
1924 United States Senate election in Illinois[1][5]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Republican
Charles S. Deneen
1,449,180
63.54
Democratic
806,702
35.37
Socialist
George Koop
18,708
0.82
Socialist Labor
Albert Wirth
2,966
0.13
Workers
J. Louis Engdahl
2,518
0.11
Commonwealth Land
Lewis D. Spaulding
391
0.02
Independent
Parke Longworth
382
0.02
Majority
642,478
28.17
Turnout
2,280,847
Republicanhold
Aftermath[]
On February 25, 1925, as he was preparing to leave office, McCormick died in what is considered to have been a suicide (though the suicidal nature of his death was not known to the public, contemporarily). His reelection loss is believed to have contributed to his suicide.[6][7][8][9][10] McCormick's widowRuth Hanna McCormick would go on to defeat Deneen in the 1930 Republican primary.[9]