1938 Ohio's 4th congressional district special election

A special election was held in Ohio's 4th congressional district after the Democratic incumbent, Frank Le Blond Kloeb, resigned when he was appointed as a district court judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.^[1] Walter H. Albaugh, the winner, was elected to finish Kloeb's term.

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1938 Ohio's 4th congressional district special election

← 1936 November 8, 1938 1938 â†’
Ohio's 4th congressional district
Nominee Walter H. Albaugh Roy E. Layton Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 47,631 39,112 Percentage 54.9% 45.1%
U.S. Representative before election Frank Le Blond Kloeb Democratic Elected U.S. Representative Walter H. Albaugh Republican

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The special election resulted in a gain for Republicans, picking up a seat that they had not held since five years prior to the election. The 4th district remained in solidly Republican hands after this election, and has not had a Democratic representative since Le Bond Kloeb's resignation.

The winner of this election, Walter H. Albaugh, was not a candidate for the next election. Robert F. Jones, also a Republican, won the election by 24.5 percentage points, a far greater margin than that of Albaugh's nine-point margin during this special election.