The 1974 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 5, 1974. It was concurrent with elections to the
United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Democratic U.S Senator
Howard Metzenbaum was running for election his first full term after he was appointed in 1974 by Ohio governor
John J. Gilligan to fill out the Senate term of
William B. Saxbe, who had resigned to become
United States Attorney General. Metzenbaum lost the primary election to
John Glenn, who went on to win the general election and win every county in the state. Metzenbaum would later be elected in the other U.S. Senate seat in
1976 and worked with Glenn until he retired from the post in 1994.
Democratic primary
Candidates
John Glenn, retired astronaut, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and 1970.
The Democratic Primary that year was seen as competitive between John Glenn, a former Astronaut, and Howard Metzenbaum, the incumbent senator, a rematch in the
1970 senate race primary in Ohio.