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1928 United States Senate election in Tennessee
	McKellar: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90%; Fowler: 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%
U.S. senator before election; Kenneth McKellar; Democratic	Elected U.S. senator ; Kenneth McKellar; Democratic

The 1928 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 6, 1928. Incumbent Democratic Senator Kenneth McKellar was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating Republican Mayor of Knoxville James A. Fowler.

Democratic primary

George L. Casey
Finis James Garrett, U.S. Representative from Weakley County and House Minority Leader
Kenneth McKellar, incumbent Senator since 1917
John Randolph Neal Jr., attorney, academic, and perennial candidate for Governor

1928 Democratic Senate primary^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kenneth McKellar (incumbent)	120,298	63.25%
	Democratic	Finis James Garrett	64,470	33.90%
	Democratic	John Randolph Neal Jr.	3,510	1.85%
	Democratic	George L. Casey	1,908	1.00%
Total votes			190,186	100.00%

1928 U.S. Senate election in Tennessee^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Kenneth McKellar (incumbent)	175,431	59.32%	8.71
	Republican	James Alexander Fowler	120,289	40.68%	8.71
Total votes			295,720	100.00%	N/A
	Democratic hold

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^ Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (1929). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1928" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 25, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2021.