Kansas gubernatorial election, 1932

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Kansas gubernatorial election, 1932
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  1930 November 8, 19321934 

  LandonPortr.jpg Harry Hines Woodring, 53rd United States Secretary of War.jpg Dr. John R. Brinkley.jpg
Candidate Alfred M. Landon Harry H. Woodring John R. Brinkley
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Popular vote278,581 272,944 244,607
Percentage34.8% 32.1% 30.6%

Governor before election

Harry Woodring
Democratic

Elected Governor

Alf Landon
Republican

The 1932 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1932. Democrat Harry H. Woodring, the incumbent Governor of Kansas, was defeated by Alf Landon, a Republican. Landon polled 34.82%, Woodring 34.14%, and John R. Brinkley, an independent, polled 30.58%. [1]

Harry Hines Woodring American politician and United States Army officer

Harry Hines Woodring was an American politician. A Democrat, he was the 25th Governor of Kansas and was Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration from 1936 to 1940. He was also the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936.

Alf Landon American politician

Alfred Mossman Landon was an American politician from the Republican Party. He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8.

John R. Brinkley American physician

John Romulus Brinkley was an American who fraudulently claimed to be a medical doctor who became known as the "goat-gland doctor" after he achieved national fame, international notoriety and great wealth through the xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans. Although initially Brinkley promoted this procedure as a means of curing male impotence, eventually he claimed that the technique was a virtual panacea for a wide range of male ailments. He operated clinics and hospitals in several states, and despite the fact that almost from the beginning, detractors and critics in the medical community thoroughly discredited his methods, he was able to continue his activities for almost two decades.

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Results

Landon won 34 counties, Woodring won 31 counties, and Brinkley won 40 counties.

Kansas gubernatorial election, 1932
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Republican Alf Landon 278,58134.82% –0.13
Democratic Harry Woodring 272,944 34.12% –0.83
Independent John R. Brinkley 244,607 30.58% +1.08
Socialist H. M. Perkins 3,892 0.49% –0.13
Majority 5,637 0.70% N/A
Republican gain from Democratic Swing N/A

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