Election Name: | 1909 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania |
Country: | Pennsylvania |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1903 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania |
Previous Year: | 1903 |
Next Election: | 1914 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania |
Next Year: | 1914 |
Election Date: | January 19, 1909 |
Nominee1: | Boies Penrose |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Electoral Vote1: | 198 |
Percentage1: | 77.04% |
Nominee2: | George M. Dimeling |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Electoral Vote2: | 42 |
Percentage2: | 16.34% |
Senator | |
Before Election: | Boies Penrose |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Boies Penrose |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1909 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on January 19, 1909. Boies Penrose was re-elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate. This was the last Class III U.S. Senate election to be decided by the Pennsylvania General Assembly before the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which mandated direct election of U.S. Senators.[1]
The Pennsylvania General Assembly, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, convened on January 19, 1909, to elect a Senator to fill the term beginning on March 4, 1909. Incumbent Republican Boies Penrose, who was elected in 1897 and re-elected in 1903, was a successful candidate for re-election to another term. The results of the vote of both houses combined are as follows:
|-|-bgcolor="#EEEEEE"| colspan="3" align="right" | Totals| align="right" | 257| align="right" | 100.00%|}