1952 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

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The 1952 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 4, 1952. Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. ran for a fourth (and second consecutive) term in office but was defeated by U.S. representative and future president John F. Kennedy, the Democratic Party nominee. Primary elections were held on September 16. Neither candidate was opposed for renomination. This election marked the decline of the Lodge family dynasty and the ascent of the Kennedy family dynasty in Massachusetts politics. Lodge, along with his grandfather Henry Cabot Lodge, had held one of Massachusetts's two Senate seats for 43 of the previous 60 years. Kennedy and his younger brother Ted Kennedy would hold this seat for a combined 53 of the next 56 years.

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