# Endorsements in the 1928 Republican Party presidential primaries

This is a list of endorsements for declared candidates in the Republican primaries for the 1928 United States presidential election.
This list only includes endorsements by notable individuals and organizations which have been reported in reliable independent sources. Endorsement by individuals does not imply endorsement by their organization.

## Herbert Hoover
### U.S. Executive Branch officials

       Current
* Harry New, U.S. Postmaster General (1923–1929)
* Curtis Wilbur, U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1924–1929)
* Hubert Work, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1923–1928)
* Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1924–1929)
* Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U.S. Assistant Attorney General (1921–1929)
* Seymour Lowman, Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1927–1932)
* Walter Folger Brown, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1927–1929)
* Ogden L. Mills, U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury (1927–1932)
       Former
* George Wickersham, U.S. Attorney General (1909–1913)
* Theodore Roosevelt Jr., U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1921–1924)
* James Garfield, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1907–1909)
* Claudius H. Huston, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce
* Foster Bain, Director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines (1921–1924)

### U.S. Senators

       Current
* Samuel Shortridge, U.S. Senator from California (1921–1933)
* Frederic Sackett, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (1925–1930)
* Arthur Gould, U.S. Senator from Maine (1926–1931)
* Frederick Gillett, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1925–1931)
* James Couzens, U.S. Senator from Michigan (1922–1936)
* George Moses, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1918–1933)
* Walter Evans Edge, U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1919–1929)
* Jesse Metcalf, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (1924–1937)
* Wesley Jones, U.S. Senator from Washington (1909–1932)
       Former
* Frank Flint, U.S. Senator from California (1905–1911)
* Simon Guggenheim, U.S. Senator from Colorado (1907–1913)
* Joseph Frelinghuysen Sr., U.S. Senator from New Jersey (1917–1923)
* William Calder, U.S. Senator from New York (1917–1923)

### U.S. Representatives

       Current
* Harry Lane Englebright, U.S. Representative from CA-2 (1926–1943)
* Charles Curry, U.S. Representative from CA-3 (1913–1930)
* Florence Kahn, U.S. Representative from CA-4 (1925–1937)
* Richard Welch, U.S. Representative from CA-5 (1926–1949)
* Albert Carter, U.S. Representative from CA-6 (1925–1945)
* Henry Barbour, U.S. Representative from CA-7 (1919–1933)
* Arthur Free, U.S. Representative from CA-8 (1921–1933)
* William Evans, U.S. Representative from CA-9 (1927–1933)
* Joe Crail, U.S. Representative from CA-10 (1927–1933)
* Phil Swing, U.S. Representative from CA-11 (1921–1933)
* James Good, U.S. Representative from IA-5 (1909–1921)
* Maurice Thatcher, U.S. Representative from KY-5 (1923–1933)
* Katherine Langley, U.S. Representative from KY-10 (1927–1931)
* James Begg, U.S. Representative from OH-13 (1919–1929)
* Theodore Burton, U.S. Representative from OH-21 (1921–1928)
* Edith Rogers, U.S. Representative from MA-5 (1925–1960)
* John Ketcham, U.S. Representative from MI-4 (1921–1933)
* Louis Cramton, U.S. Representative from MI-7 (1913–1931)
* Walter Newton, U.S. Representative from MN-5 (1919–1929)
* Leonidas C. Dyer, U.S. Representative from MO-12 (1915–1933)
* Robert Bacon, U.S. Representative from NY-1 (1923–1938)
* Thaddeus Sweet, U.S. Representative from NY-32 (1923–1928)
* John Clarke, U.S. Representative from NY-34 (1927–1933)
* Gale Stalker, U.S. Representative from NY-37 (1923–1935)
* James Beck, U.S. Representative from PA-1 (1927–1933)
* George Graham, U.S. Representative from PA-2 (1913–1931)
* George Welsh, U.S. Representative from PA-6 (1923–1932)
* Thomas Butler, U.S. Representative from PA-8 (1923–1928)
* Cyrus Palmer, U.S. Representative from PA-13 (1927–1929)
* Robert Bushong, U.S. Representative from PA-14 (1927–1929)
* Louis McFadden, U.S. Representative from PA-15 (1915–1935)
* Edgar Kiess, U.S. Representative from PA-16 (1923–1930)
* Edward Beers, U.S. Representative from PA-18 (1923–1932)
* Isaac Doutrich, U.S. Representative from PA-19 (1927–1937)
* Russell Leech, U.S. Representative from PA-20 (1927–1932)
* Jacob Kurtz, U.S. Representative from PA-23 (1923–1933)
* Samuel Kendall, U.S. Representative from PA-24 (1927–1933)
* Henry Temple, U.S. Representative from PA-25 (1923–1933)
* J. Howard Swick, U.S. Representative from PA-26 (1927–1935)
* Nathan Strong, U.S. Representative from PA-27 (1917–1935)
* Thomas Cochran, U.S. Representative from PA-28 (1927–1933)
* Milton Shreve, U.S. Representative from PA-29 (1923–1933)
* Adam Wyant, U.S. Representative from PA-31 (1927–1933)
* Stephen Porter, U.S. Representative from PA-32 (1923–1930)
* M. Clyde Kelly, U.S. Representative from PA-33 (1923–1933)
* John Morin, U.S. Representative from PA-34 (1923–1929)
* Harry Estep, U.S. Representative from PA-35 (1927–1933)
* Guy Campbell, U.S. Representative from PA-36 (1923–1933)
* Richard Aldrich, U.S. Representative from RI-2 (1923–1933)
* Will Taylor, U.S. Representative from TN-2 (1919–1939)
* C. Bascom Slemp, U.S. Representative from VA-9 (1907–1923)
* Albert Johnson, U.S. Representative from RI-2 (1913–1933)
       Former
* William Ward, U.S. Representative from NY-16 (1897–1899)
* William Hill, U.S. Representative from NY-34 (1919–1921)

### Governors

       Current
* C. C. Young, Governor of California (1927–1931)
* Flem Sampson, Governor of Kentucky (1927–1931)
* Alvan Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts (1925–1929)
* Fred Green, Governor of Michigan (1927–1931)
* Huntley Spaulding, Governor of New Hampshire (1927–1929)
       Former
* James Goodrich, Governor of Indiana (1917–1921)
* Percival P. Baxter, Governor of Maine (1921–1925)
* Alex Groesbeck, Governor of Michigan (1921–1927)
* Samuel McKelvie, Governor of Nebraska (1919–1923)
* Edward Stokes, Governor of New Jersey (1905–1908)

### Statewide officials

* William Maier, New York State Comptroller (1922)
* Ivan Bowen, frmr. Minnesota State Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner
* Charles S. Wilson, frmr. New York Commissioner of Agriculture
* Buron Fitts, Lt. Governor of California (1927–1928)

### State legislators

* Robert Taft, Ohio State Representative (1921–1931)
* Chester Bolton, Ohio State Senator (1923–1928)
* Nettie B. Loughead, Ohio State Senator
* Howard Gray, Missouri State Senator

### Local officials

* Ernest A. Balch, Mayor of Kalamazoo, Michigan (Democratic)
* Arthur E. Moreau, Mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
* Ruth Baker Pratt, Alderman for New York City (1925–1929)
* Thad Brown, Ohio Secretary of State (1923–1927)
* Harry Routzohn, probate judge(1917–1929)
* Albert Beach, Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (1924–1930)

### Party officials

* Hamilton Fish Kean, Republican National Committeeman (R-NJ)
* Thomas P. Cheney, Republican State Committeeman chairman (R-NH)
* William Crocker, Republican State Committeeman chairman (R-CA)
* John Adams, Chair of the Republican National Committee (1921–1924)
* George B. Lockwood, frmr. Secretary of the Republican National Committee
* O. D. Street, Republican National Committeeman (R-AL)
* Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman (R-OH)

### Individuals

* Henry Ford, businessman
* William Donovan, soldier and lawyer
* Meier Steinbrink, lawyer
* William Thompson, President of Ohio State University
* Charles Taft, lawyer
* William Procter, head of Procter & Gamble
* John Hays Hammond, mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist
* Allen Hazen
* Walter Aldridge mining and metallurgical engineer
* Louis S. Cates mining engineer and businessman
* Lillian Gilbreth, psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator
* Mark Requa, mining engineer and petroleum conservationist
* Eugene McAuliffe, President of the Union Pacific Coal Company
* Samuel Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works
* George Akerson, journalist
* Edward Orton Jr., academic administrator, businessman, ceramic engineer, geologist, and philanthropist
* August Mencken, civil engineer and author
* Harry Guggenheim, businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman
* Michael Pupin, physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist
* Charles A. Stone, electrical engineer
* A.W. Berresford, President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
* Ambrose Swasey, mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist
* Elmer Sperry, inventor and entrepreneur
* Elihu Thomson, engineer and inventor
* John Quinn, national commander of the American Legion
* Harriot Stanton Blatch, writer and suffragist
* Amelita Galli-Curci, coloratura soprano
* Felix Warburg, banker
* John Philip Sousa, composer and conductor
* George Haven Putnam, publisher, soldier, and writer
* Anthony Fiala, explorer
* Daniel Beard, illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer
* Christopher Morley, journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
* Ernest Poole, journalist, novelist, and playwright
* Sophie Kerr, writer
* Ellis Parker Butler, author
* Margaret Widdemer, poet and novelist
* Meade Minnigerode, writer
* Arthur Guiterman, writer
* Will Irwin, author, writer and journalist
* Earl Derr Biggers, novelist and playwright
* Jesse S. Phillips, lawyer, politician, and insurance executive
* Thomas C. Desmond, engineer
* Herman Bernstein, journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, Jewish activist, and diplomat
* Clayton Hamilton, drama critic
* Mary Brooks Picken, author
* Annie Nathan Meyer, author
* Edmund Pearson, librarian and author
* Clarence Perry, urban planner, sociologist, author, and educator
* Thomas Edison, inventor and businessman

### Newspapers

* Scripps-Howard Newspapers
* The Philadelphia Inquirer

## Frank Lowden
### U.S. Executive Branch officials

* Charles Dawes, U.S. Vice President from Illinois (1925–1929)

### U.S. Senators

* Charles McNary, U.S. Senator from Oregon (1918–1944)
* Peter Norbeck, U.S. Senator from South Dakota (1921–1936)
* William McMaster, U.S. Senator from South Dakota (1925–1931)

### U.S. Representatives

* Lester Dickinson, U.S. Representative from IA-10 (1919–1931)
* William Johnson, U.S. Representative from IL-13 (1925–1933)
* John Allen, U.S. Representative from IL-14 (1925–1933)
* William Hull, U.S. Representative from IL-16 (1923–1933)
* Homer Hall, U.S. Representative from IL-17 (1927–1933)
* William Holaday, U.S. Representative from IL-18 (1923–1933)
* Charles Adkins, U.S. Representative from IL-19 (1925–1933)
* Edward Irwin, U.S. Representative from IL-22 (1925–1931)
* Thomas Williams, U.S. Representative from IL-24 (1915–1929)
* Edward Denison, U.S. Representative from IL-25 (1915–1931)

### Governors

       Current
* Adam McMullen, Governor of Nebraska (1925–1929)
       Former
* Oliver Shoup, Governor of Colorado (1919–1923)
* Arthur Hyde, Governor of Missouri (1921–1925)
* L. B. Hanna, Governor of North Dakota (1913–1917)

### Statewide officials

* Omer Custer, Illinois State Treasurer (1925–1927)

### State legislators

* Alonzo Lindley, Ohio State Senator
* Clarence Buck, Illinois State Senator
* Peter B. Lennon, Michigan State Senator
* Claude H. Mackenzie, Minnesota State Senator (1918–1926)
* John Schumann, Wisconsin State Senator (1923–1931)

### Party officials

* Willis Stern, Republican State chairman for Iowa

### Individuals

* Milton Foreman, Lieutenant General

### Organizations

* Nonpartisan League of North Dakota

### Newspapers
## George Norris
### U.S. Senators

* William Borah, U.S. Senator from Idaho (1907–1940)
* Smith Brookhart, U.S. Senator from Iowa (1927–1933)
* Henrik Shipstead, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1923–1947) (Farmer-Labor)
* Robert Howell, U.S. Senator from Nebraska (1923–1933)
* Gerald Nye, U.S. Senator from North Dakota (1925–1945)
* Lynn Frazier, U.S. Senator from North Dakota (1923–1941)
* Robert La Follette Jr., U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1925–1947)
* John Blaine, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (1927–1933)

### U.S. Representatives

* Joseph Beck, U.S. Representative from WI-7 (1921–1929)

### Statewide officials

* Herman Ekern, Attorney General of Wisconsin (1923–1927)

### Local officials

* Philip La Follette, District attorney from Wisconsin (1925–1927)

### Individuals

* Christian Sorensen, lawyer
* Margretta Dietrich, suffragette and activist

### Newspapers
## Charles Curtis
### U.S. Senators

* Arthur Capper, U.S. Senator from Kansas (1919–1949)

### U.S. Representatives

* Daniel Anthony Jr., U.S. Representative from KS-1 (1907–1929)
* Ulysses Guyer, U.S. Representative from KS-2 (1927–1943)
* William Sproul, U.S. Representative from KS-3 (1923–1931)
* Homer Hoch, U.S. Representative from KS-4 (1919–1933)
* James Strong, U.S. Representative from KS-5 (1919–1933)
* Hays White, U.S. Representative from KS-6 (1919–1929)
* Clifford Hope, U.S. Representative from KS-7 (1927–1943)

### Governors

* Benjamin S. Paulen, Governor of Kansas (1925–1929)

### Statewide officials

* William Johnston, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1903–1935)
* William Hutchinson, Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1927–1939)
* William Harvey, Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1923–1945)
* Richard Hopkins, Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1923–1929)
* John Marshall, Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1915–1931)
* John Dawson, Associate Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1915–1937)
* Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster, Kansas State Superintendent of Public Instruction (1919–1923)

### Individuals

* Joseph Steinberg, former New York State Assemblyman for District 15 (1919–1924)

### Newspapers
## Frank Willis
### U.S. Executive Branch officials

* Carmi Thompson, U.S. Treasurer (1912–1913)

### U.S. Senators

* Simeon Fess, U.S. Senator from Ohio (1923–1935)

### U.S. Representatives

* Roy Fitzgerald, U.S. Representative from OH-3 (1921–1931)
* William Fitzgerald, U.S. Representative from OH-4 (1925–1929)
* Charles Thompson, U.S. Representative from OH-5 (1919–1931)
* Charles Kearns, U.S. Representative from OH-6 (1915–1931)
* Charles Brand, U.S. Representative from OH-7 (1923–1933)
* Thomas Jenkins, U.S. Representative from OH-10 (1925–1959)
* John Speaks, U.S. Representative from OH-12 (1921–1931)
* C. Ellis Moore, U.S. Representative from OH-15 (1919–1933)
* B. Frank Murphy, U.S. Representative from OH-18 (1919–1933)
* Charles Knight, U.S. Representative from OH-14 (1921–1923)

### State legislators

* Lee Beaty, Ohio State Representative (1917–1920)

### Party officials

* Wilma Sinclair Levan, Republican National Committeewoman (R-OH)

### Individuals

* Frank Seiberling, innovator and entrepreneur

### Organizations
## James Watson
### U.S. Representatives

* Harry Rowbottom, U.S. Representative from IN-1 (1925–1931)
* Noble Johnson, U.S. Representative from IN-5 (1925–1931)
* Richard Elliott, U.S. Representative from IN-6 (1917–1931)
* Ralph Updike, U.S. Representative from IN-7 (1925–1929)
* Albert Henry Vestal, U.S. Representative from IN-8 (1917–1932)
* Fred Purnell, U.S. Representative from IN-9 (1917–1933)
* William R. Wood, U.S. Representative from IN-10 (1915–193)
* Albert Hall, U.S. Representative from IN-11 (1925–1931)
* David Hogg, U.S. Representative from IN-12 (1925–1933)
* Andrew Hickey, U.S. Representative from IN-13 (1919–1931)