page_title: 1932 United States Senate elections
section_title: Arkansas
hierarchical_section_title: 1932 United States Senate elections / Arkansas
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Arkansas senator. Washington, D.C., March 11. Senator Hattie W. Caraway, Democrat of Arkansas, from a new informal picture made in her office at the Capitol today, 3-11-40 Abstract/medium: 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
context_page_description: The United States Senate elections of 1932 coincided with Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's crushing defeat of incumbent Herbert Hoover in the presidential election. With the Hoover administration widely blamed for the Great Depression, Republicans lost twelve seats and control of the chamber.
  This was the first time since the 1920 elections that the victorious party defended all of their own seats and achieved a pickup in the double-digits. Senator Reed Smoot lost re-election: although economists disagree by how much, the consensus view among economists and economic historians is that "The passage of [his] Smoot-Hawley tariff exacerbated the Great Depression."
context_section_description: There were two elections for the same seat, due to the November 6, 1931 death of two-term Democrat Thaddeus H. Caraway.
  Caraway's widow, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway, was appointed November 13, 1931 to continue his term.
caption: Senator Hattie Wyatt Caraway
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