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United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970

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November 3, 1970

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Winner
  
Ted Kennedy

The 1970 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 3, 1970. The incumbent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy defeated his challengers. This was Kennedy's first election run since the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident.

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Candidates

  • Josiah Spaulding - Businessman and Republican leader in Massachusetts. He led a group of delegates at the 1968 Republican National Convention who unsuccessfully sought to nominate Nelson A. Rockefeller over Richard Nixon.
  • John J. McCarthy, State Commissioner of Administration and Finance from 1965-1967.

    • Candidates

  • Ted Kennedy (Democratic) - Incumbent U.S. Senator first elected in 1962 (to John Kennedy's unexpired term) and elected to a full term in 1964.
  • Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor)
  • Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition) - Former Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1946, 1952, 1958, 1969, 1962, and 1966. He was the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1948 and 1956. In 1964, he was the Prohibition Party's candidate for vice-president of the United States.
  • Josiah Spaulding (Republican) - Businessman

    • References

    United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1970 Wikipedia
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