1932 United States Senate election in California

The 1932 United States Senate election in California was held on November 2, 1932. Incumbent Republican Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge ran for a third term in office, but lost a highly competitive four-way Republican primary to Tallant Tubbs, who ran as a "wet" or anti-prohibition candidate.

In the general election, former Secretary of the Treasury and presidential candidate William Gibbs McAdoo won a three-way race against Tubbs and Prohibition candidate Robert P. Shuler, who received the most votes of any Prohibition candidate in United States history.

Candidates

 * Joe Crail, U.S. Representative from Inglewood
 * Samuel Morgan Shortridge, incumbent Senator
 * Robert P. Shuler, Southern Methodist evangelist preacher (cross-filing)
 * Tallant Tubbs, state legislator
 * Leo V. Youngworth

Candidates

 * P.M. Abbott
 * Annie Hale
 * William Gibbs McAdoo, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and candidate for President in 1920 and 1924
 * M. J. McCarthy
 * Robert P. Shuler, Southern Methodist evangelist preacher (cross-filing)
 * Justus S. Wardell, nominee for Governor in 1926