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1944 United States Senate election in Arkansas - Wikipedia

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1944 U.S. Senate election in Arkansas

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November 7, 1944

1950 →


Nominee	J. William Fulbright	Victor Wade
Party	Democratic	Republican
Popular vote	182,499	31,942
Percentage	85.10%	14.90%

County results
Fulbright: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%

U.S. senator before election

Hattie Caraway
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

J. William Fulbright
Democratic

The 1944 United States Senate election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1944. Incumbent Senator Hattie Caraway ran for a third term in office, but was eliminated in the Democratic primary. U.S. Representative J. William Fulbright defeated Governor Homer Martin Adkins in the Democratic runoff.

Fulbright easily defeated Republican Victor Wade in the general election, in a landslide victory typical for Arkansas Democrats at the time.

Homer Martin Adkins, Governor of Arkansas since 1941
L. H. Barton
Hattie Caraway, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1931
J. William Fulbright, U.S. Representative from Fayetteville and former University of Arkansas professor
J. Rosser Venable, candidate for Senate in 1936

1944 United States Senate elections

^ ^a ^b ^c Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin (2018). "Historical Report of the Secretary of State" (PDF). p. 362. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 16, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ Clerk of the United States House of Representatives (1957). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1944" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 13, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2021.