Newton Jenkins
{{Short description|American attorney (1887-1942)}}
Isaac Newton Jenkins (August 19, 1887 – October 16, 1942) was an American attorney, soldier, and political candidate. A perennial candidate for political office, Jenkins ran for office in Illinois many times. He originally ran as a Robert La Follette-aligned progressive member of the Republican Party in the 1920s. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Jenkins publicly espoused antisemitic and fascist views and aligned himself with Adolf Hitler and other Nazis. He associated with other American pro-fascists. He was a figure in the short-lived Union Party, and served as the director of William Lemke's 1936 campaign as the party's presidential nominee.
Military career
During World War I, Jenkins served in the 5th Regiment of the United States Marines as a lieutenant. He later served with France's 5th Army.
Legal and business career
Jenkins established himself as a prominent attorney in Chicago.{{cite web |title=Says National Awaits Outcome of Dairy Revolt in Illinois |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/518669229 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) |access-date=26 March 2023 |language=en |date=November 20, 1931}} He was the attorney for the Pure Milk association (a dairy cooperative selling organization) since its inception. He was also a member of the Cook County Farm Bureau. He was, at one time, president of the Jefferson Park Business Men's Association.{{cite web |title=Political Shorts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/37014905 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Daily Herald |access-date=26 March 2023 |language=en |date=April 8, 1932}}
Early (progressive) political career
=1920 Chicago aldermanic candidacy=
Jenkins made his first run for political office in 1920, when he ran to be Chicago alderman of the 27th Ward.{{cite web |title=Newton Jenkins, 55, Lawyer and Soldier; Defeated for Mayor of Chicago and United States Senator |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/10/17/85600447.html?pageNumber=15 |website=The New York Times |access-date=16 December 2020 |language=en |date=17 October 1942}}
=1924, 1930, and 1932 U.S. Senate candidacies=
{{main|1924 United States Senate election in Illinois|1930 United States Senate election in Illinois|1932 United States Senate election in Illinois}}
Jenkins thrice ran in Illinois for the United States Senate. He first ran in the Republican Party's primary for the 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois on a Robert La Follette-aligned platform.{{cite web |title=Our Campaigns - Candidate - Newton Jenkins |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=59843 |website=www.ourcampaigns.com |access-date=16 December 2020}} Samuel George Blythe described Jenkins as having run on a, "farmer-labor near bolshevik platform." While Jenkins ran a left-wing campaign, he performed his strongest in downstate Illinois than in Cook County, Illinois, despite Cook County being home to a more traditionally left-wing constituency. This was an indicator that his platform had appealed to downstate farmers.{{cite web |last1=Blythe |first1=Samuel G. |title=Old Guard is 'Sore' -Bylthe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/95013074 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Houston Post |access-date=26 March 2023 |language=en |date=June 10, 1924}} Jenkins placed third in the primary, receiving 114,239 votes. This gave him 13.32% of the vote, compared to Charles S. Deneen's 41.70% and incumbent Medill McCormick's 41.01%.{{cite book |title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, NOV. 4, 1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 SPECIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, APRIL 8, 1924 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 8, 1924 |publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections }}
During the 1930 Illinois U.S. Senate race again ran for U.S. Senate, challenging incumbent Charles S. Deneen for the Republican Party nomination. He and Deneen both lost to Ruth Hanna McCormick.{{cite journal|author=Strickland, Arvarh E. |title='The Lady Candidate': Ruth Hanna McCormick and the Senatorial Election of 1930.|journal=Illinois Historical Journal |year = 1995|volume = 88|issue = 3|pages = 189–202|publisher = University of Illinois Press|jstor = 40192957}}. Jenkins received 161,261 votes. This gave him 11.43% of the vote, compared to McCormick's 50.66% and Deneen's 35.19%.{{cite book |title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, NOV. 4, 1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 SPECIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, APRIL 8, 1924 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 8, 1924 |publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections }}
Jenkins ran a third time for U.S. Senate in the Republican primary of the 1932 United States Senate election in Illinois. During his campaign, Jenkins supported the proposed Capper-Kelly Fair Trade Bill. Jenkins received 405,387 votes, placing a distant second behind incumbent Otis F. Glenn. He won 37.98% of the vote to Glenn's 53.62%.{{cite book |title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, November 8, 1932 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1931–1932 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, April 12, 1932 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 12, 1932 |publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections }}
During these campaigns, Jenkins built a sizable base of support in organizations for famers and organizations for retired military servicemen.
Later (fascist) political career
By the mid-1930s, Jenkins' politics had taken a highly pronounced turn to fascism.
=1935 Chicago mayoral candidacy=
{{main|1935 Chicago mayoral election}}
In 1935, Jenkins ran for mayor of Chicago as an independent candidate. Jenkins still promoted himself as a "progressive" candidate.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hJbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA220|title=Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 35|year=1934|page=220}}{{cite web|url=https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/nee95975|title=1935 Press Photo Newton Jenkins Veteran Illinois Progressive Republic}} However, he adopted outright fascist and antisemitic politics and now stood in fierce opposition to such progressive causes as labor movements.
Jenkins' run was supported by his Third Party, which was an effort to launch a new political party. The party claimed itself to be spun-off from the progressive Republican movement.{{cite news |title=Third Party Tries Wings in Chicago; Newton Jenkins Is Entered for Mayor Under Symbol of the American Buffalo |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/01/27/archives/third-party-tries-wings-in-chicago-newton-jenkins-is-entered-for.html |access-date=5 January 2019 |work=New York Times |date=27 January 1935 }} The party, which intended to use "U.S., Unite" as its national slogan and utilize the buffalo as its mascot, sought to use Jenkins' candidacy as a national launchpad.{{cite web|url=http://souciant.com/2017/01/nazi-spies-and-american-patriots/|title=Nazi Spies and American "Patriots"|author=John L. Spivak}} However, Third Party was regarded to be "openly fascist". The July 10, 1935, edition of the American Guardian newspaper wrote that Jenkins had, {{blockquote|Established contact with the Chicago Nazi organization, has appeared on platforms with uniformed Nazis at their official meetings, is openly anti-Semitic and has announced as part of his policy the formation of highly militarized storm troops to defend and protect the interests of his party. The Jenkins
By the time of this campaign, Jenkins was openly very antisemitic.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohzenXVxYm0C|title=Mackerels in the Moonlight: Four Corrupt American Mayors|page=62|isbn=9780786418459|last1=Leinwand|first1=Gerald|date=17 August 2004|publisher=McFarland }} During his campaign, Jenkins published antisemitic literature.{{cite web |title=Chicago Election Blow to Nazi Hopes |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/chicago-election-blow-to-nazi-hopes |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |access-date=26 March 2023 |date=April 4, 1935}}
The platform of the Third Party-backed slate of independent candidates in the 1935 Chicago municipal election was to create a city manager position in the city, to adopt the city commission-style of government in Chicago, to create jobs for the head of family of 100,000 households, to eliminate taxes in the city, and to end "corrupt elections".{{cite web |last1=Gallagher |first1=John P. |title=More Taxable Items Sought in the Corn Belt |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380594259 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |work=The Los Angeles Times |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=en |date=February 3, 1935}}
Jenkins placed third of three candidates in the mayoral election with 87,726 votes. He received 8.34% of the vote, to incumbent Democrat Edward Joseph Kelly's 75.84% and Republican nominee Emil C. Wetten's 15.83%.{{cite web |title=Board of Election Commissioners For the City of Chicago Mayoral Election Results Since 1900 General Elections Only |url=http://66.107.4.19/ |publisher=Chicago Board of Election Commissioners |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040718031857/http://66.107.4.19/ |archive-date=18 July 2004 |date=18 July 2004 |url-status=dead |access-date=26 March 2023 }}
=Union Party and 1936 U.S. Senate candidacy=
{{see also|1936 United States Senate election in Illinois}}
Soon after the mayoral election, in March 1936 Jenkins declared his intention to run in the 1936 United States presidential election as the Third Party's nominee.{{cite web |title=Newton Jenkins, Chicago, Out for Presidency |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/862559069 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Neosho Miner-Mechanic |access-date=26 March 2023 |language=en |date=March 20, 1936}} However, the Third Party merged into the Union Party, which was backing William Lemke's presidential candidacy. As leader of the Union Party, Lemke had first approached the Third Party during the mayoral election about merging their efforts to establish a third major political party.{{cite web |title=Calls Third Party Aid to Fascism |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/147064735 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Pittsburgh Press |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=en |date=July 17, 1936}} Jenkins became the leader of the Illinois state chapter of the Union Party{{cite web |title=Victory 'Like Duck Soup' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/531385098 |url-access=subscription |via=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Rock Island Argus |access-date=25 March 2023 |agency=The Associated Press |language=en |date=July 29, 1936}} and served as the director of Lemke's Union Party candidacy in the presidential election.{{cite web |title=an excerpt from: Shrine of the Silver Dollar John L. Spivak(C)1940 Modern Age Books New York, NY |url=https://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg10723.html |website=www.mail-archive.com |access-date=26 March 2023}}{{cite web |title=December 29, 1939 - Image 5 |url=https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djc.1939.12.29.001/5 |website=The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives |access-date=26 March 2023 |language=en}} Jenkins also ran as the party's nominee in the 1936 U.S. Senate election in Illinois. Jenkins placed a distant third, receiving 93,696 votes. This gave him 2.47% of the vote to incumbent Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis's 56.47% and Republican nominee Otis F. Glenn's 40.72%{{Cite web |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1936 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1936election.pdf |access-date=July 21, 2019 |publisher=Clerk.house.gov}}
=Continued fascist activism=
File:Excerpts of "American Nationalism" (Newton Jenkins newspaper, 1937) volume 1, issue 1.png on Jenkins in the September 12, 1937 edition of the Chicago Times)]]
Jenkins endorsed the political views of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party. In July 1937, Jenkins began publishing a newspaper titled American Nationalism. One article in the first edition of the newspaper opined that, "America needs men and women like Hitler to stir her from her lethargy." The newspaper also opined that, "the world
Jenkins' pro-Nazi work received attention from Chicago Times reporters-investigators James J. Metcalfe, John C. Metcalfe, and William Mueller: all of whom went undercover in the American Nazi groups to report on their activities, particularly focusing on the German American Bund. When the third installment in the series of reports the Chicago Times published as a result of their work was published as a front-page story on September 12, 1937. The main article focused extensively on Jenkins' activities.{{cite web |title=Daily Illini 12 September 1937 — Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections |url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=DIL19370912.2.21&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |website=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (University of Illinois) |publisher=Daily Illini |access-date=1 November 2024 |date=September 12, 1937}}{{cite web |last1=Mueller |first1=William |title=Nazi Merger Scheme Times Reporters Tell More Secrets |url=https://undercover.hosting.nyu.edu/files/original/3de4e4a73b85213d9c74b3e4a06930567e2903ff.pdf |website=Chicago Times |publisher=undercover.hosting.nyu.edu (New York University) |access-date=1 November 2024 |date=September 12, 1937}} The article reported that Jenkins was, "attempting to united 'nationalist' groups in the third party", and that he was being heralded by attendees at Bund meetings as a "great American", as well as referred to with the honorific "Der Führer der Dritten Partei" for the Nazi political movement in the United States (translating to "leader of the Third party" in the German language). The article quoted Jenkins as telling the Bund's July 1937 national convention at Camp Siegfried in New York state,
{{Blockquote|I am not of German blood, and I do not speak
The article reported that a Bund unit leader had confided in James J. Metcalfe that Jenkins intended to unite "125 national organizations" under the banner of his Third Party, with "American-Germans...at the top of this merger," but that Jenkins himself had told him that the Bund would not be at the top of his planned merger, due to his belief that they lacked great leadership. Jenkins opined that Firtz Gissibl (who had founded the Bund's precursor, Free Society of Teutonia, but had been deported from the United States) had been a "a great leader." It also quoted Jenkins as sharing that his intent in publishing American Nationalism was, "the hope of stirring up thought along the lines of a real, militant nationalist movement in the United States." In their 1938 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Jenkins' activities were discussed and evidence related to Jenkins was entered in to the congressional record.{{cite book |last1=House |first1=United States Congress |title=Hearings |date=1938 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=1209–1217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7IXQgHTApcC |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Metcalfe (John C.) papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6w10052p/dsc/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=26 March 2023}}{{cite web |title=Home-Grown Nazis- John C. Metcalfe and James J. Metcalfe - Chicago Daily Times · Undercover Reporting |url=https://undercover.hosting.nyu.edu/s/undercover-reporting/item-set/51 |website=undercover.hosting.nyu.edu |access-date=26 March 2023}}
In 1938, Jenkins self-published a book titled The Republic Reclaimed which presented his views that Jewish people were at fault for most of the world's problems.{{cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=Newton |title=The Republic Reclaimed |date=1938 |publisher=N. Jenkins |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fppOAQAAMAAJ |access-date=25 March 2023 |language=en}} The book praised Mussolini and Italian fascists as well as Hitler and German Nazi fascists, containing a chapter on Adolf Hitler titled "Hitler Greatest German in All History".{{cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=Newton |title=The republic reclaimed |date=1938 |publisher=N. Jenkins |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102292497}} The book predicted that there would be a "man hunt" against the "traitors" he alleged were "selling the Republic to Jew power".{{cite web |title=America awakening! : Chicago lawyer publishes book praising Hitler and Mussolini and predicting "a man hunt for traitors" in politics, journalism and economics, who are selling the Republic to the Jew power / Robert Edward Edmondson. - Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib275504 |website=collections.ushmm.org |access-date=26 March 2023}}
=1938 U.S Senate candidacy=
{{main|1938 United States Senate election in Illinois}}
In 1938, Jenkins ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic Party's U.S. Senate primary. He placed a distant third, receiving 32,808 votes. He received 2.04% of the vote to Scott W. Lucas's 49.92% and Michael L. Igoe's 45.23%.{{cite book|title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, November 8, 1938 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1937–1938 PRIMARY ELECTION GENERAL PRIMARY, April 12, 1938|publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections}}
=Later activities=
File:Uncle Sam Crucifixion circular.jpg]]
Among the American fascists that Jenkins associated himself with was Francis Parker Yockey.{{cite web |title=Spitfire List {{!}} FTR #185 Interview with Kevin Coogan |url=https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-185-interview-with-kevin-coogan/ |access-date=26 March 2023}}
By 1941, Jenkins worked with Elizabeth Dilling to run what the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described in a memorandum as a "clearinghouse for anti-Semitic material". Through this operation, in 1941, they anonymously distributed in numerous cities a printing that the ADL dubbed the "Uncle Sam crucifixion circular" or the "new pro-Nazi circular" which portrayed several prominent Jewish figures as being among those involved in a conspiracy to bring the United States into World War II, and urged the United States to remain neutral. Per the findings of Maurice Fagan, the executive director of the Philadelphia Anti-Defamation Committee, the circular was the "brainchild" of Jenkins. ADL investigators found that John Winter of Chicago had printed the circular for them. A second circular surfaced soon after. Evidence found by ADL investigators indicated that the artwork featured in both circulars were likely created by artist Gustave A. Brand, who was the former city treasurer of Chicago.{{cite web |last1=Sly |first1=Margery |title=From the Philadelphia Jewish Archives: Investigating the Crucifixion of Uncle Sam |url=https://sites.temple.edu/historynews/2017/09/08/from-the-philadelphia-jewish-archives-investigating-the-crucifixion-of-uncle-sam/ |website=sites.temple.edu |publisher=History News (Temple University) |access-date=26 March 2023 |date=8 September 2017}}
Death
Electoral history
=U.S. Senate=
{{Election box begin no change| title = 1924 United States Senate election in Illinois (Republican primary){{cite web |title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, NOV. 4, 1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 SPECIAL ELECTIONS, 1923–1924 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, APRIL 8, 1924 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 8, 1924 |url=https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1924/PE%20and%20GE%201924.pdf |publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections |access-date=19 December 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Charles S. Deneen
|votes = 357,545
|percentage = 41.70
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Medill McCormick (incumbent)
|votes = 351,601
|percentage = 41.01
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Newton Jenkins
|votes = 114,239
|percentage = 13.32
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Gilbert Gile Ogden
|votes = 18,002
|percentage = 2.10
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Adelbert McPherson
|votes = 15,973
|percentage = 0.19
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Write-in
|candidate = Others
|votes = 1
|percentage = 0.00
}}
{{Election box total no change |
|votes = 857,361
|percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change| title= 1930 United States Senate election in Illinois (Republican primary){{cite web |title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, NOV. 4, 1930 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1929–1930 PRIMARY ELECTION GENERAL PRIMARY, APRIL 8, 1930 |url=https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1930/PE%20and%20GE%201930.pdf |publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections |access-date=15 December 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Ruth Hanna McCormick
|votes = 714,606
|percentage = 50.66
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Charles S. Deneen (incumbent)
|votes = 496,412
|percentage = 35.19
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Newton Jenkins
|votes = 161,261
|percentage = 11.43
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Abe Lincoln Wisler
|votes = 19,778
|percentage = 1.40
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Adelbert McPherson
|votes = 18,582
|percentage = 1.32
}}
{{Election box total no change |
|votes = 1,410,639
|percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change| title= 1932 United States Senate election in Illinois (Republican primary){{cite web |title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, November 8, 1932 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1931–1932 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, April 12, 1932 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 12, 1932 |url=https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1932/PE%20and%20GE%201932.pdf |publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections |access-date=18 December 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Otis F. Glenn (incumbent)
|votes = 572,382
|percentage = 53.62
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Newton Jenkins
|votes = 405,387
|percentage = 37.98
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = T.B. Wright
|votes = 89,677
|percentage = 8.40
}}
{{Election box total no change |
|votes = 1,067,446
|percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title= 1936 United States Senate election in Illinois{{Cite web |title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 3, 1936 |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1936election.pdf |access-date=July 21, 2019 |publisher=Clerk.house.gov}}
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| candidate = J. Hamilton Lewis (incumbent)
| votes = 2,142,887
| percentage = 56.47
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| candidate = Otis F. Glenn
| votes = 1,545,170
| percentage = 40.72
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Union Progressive Party (Illinois)
| candidate = Newton Jenkins
| votes = 93,696
| percentage = 2.47
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Socialist Party USA
| candidate = Arthur McDowell
| votes = 7,405
| percentage = 0.20
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Prohibition Party
| candidate = Adah M. Hagler
| votes = 3,298
| percentage = 0.09
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Socialist Labor Party of America
| candidate = Frank Schnur
| votes = 2,208
| percentage = 0.06
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 3,794,664
| percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change| title=1938 United States Senate election in Illinois (Democratic primary){{cite web|title=OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, November 8, 1938 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1937–1938 PRIMARY ELECTION GENERAL PRIMARY, April 12, 1938|url=https://www.elections.il.gov/DocDisplay.aspx?doc=Downloads/ElectionOperations/VoteTotals/Archived/1938/PE%20and%20GE%201938.pdf|publisher=Illinois State Board of Elections|access-date=14 December 2020}}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Scott W. Lucas
|votes = 801,761
|percentage = 49.92
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Michael L. Igoe
|votes = 726,477
|percentage = 45.23
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Newton Jenkins
|votes = 32,808
|percentage = 2.04
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = John J. Sullivan
|votes = 31,964
|percentage = 1.99
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Albert Lagerstedt
|votes = 13,236
|percentage = 0.82
}}
{{Election box total no change |
|votes = 1,606,246
|percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
=Mayor=
{{Election box begin no change| title=1935 Chicago mayoral election{{cite web |title=Board of Election Commissioners For the City of Chicago Mayoral Election Results Since 1900 General Elections Only |url=http://66.107.4.19/|publisher=Chicago Board of Election Commissioners |access-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040718031857/http://66.107.4.19/ |archive-date=July 18, 2004 |date=18 July 2004 |url-status=dead}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Edward Joseph Kelly (incumbent)
|votes = 798,150
|percentage = 75.84
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Emil C. Wetten
|votes = 166,571
|percentage = 15.83}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Independent politician
|candidate = Newton Jenkins
|votes = 87,726
|percentage = 8.34}}
{{Election box turnout no change
|votes = 1,052,447
|percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}