The 1920 United States Senate special election in Virginia was held on Tuesday November 2. Appointed Senator
Carter Glass defeated Republican J. R. Pollard and was elected to finish the term of Democrat
Thomas S. Martin, who died the previous year. Glass and fellow Senator
Claude A. Swanson were the first U.S. senators to be elected by popular vote (Martin ran unopposed in
1918) following the passage of the
17th Amendment.
Results
United States Senate special election in Virginia, 1920[1]