Claim: In the 1936 United States Senate election in New Jersey, William Warren Barbour took the highest votes with 367,021 (81.47%), followed by David J. Allen with 49,335 (10.95%), both of the Republican party, a party founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act.
Evidence: William H. Smathers 916,414 1,669,291 1936 United States Senate election in New Jersey 54.90% 
William Warren Barbour (incumbent) 740,088 1936 United States Senate election in New Jersey 1,669,291 44.34%