1930 United States House of Representatives elections
District Incumbent Party First elected Result Candidates
Tennessee 1 B. Carroll Reece Republican 1920 Incumbent lost re-election . New member elected Y Oscar B. Lovette ( Republican ) 53.4% B. Carroll Reece ( Republican ) 46.6%
Tennessee 2 J . Will Taylor Republican 1918 Incumbent re-elected Y J . Will Taylor ( Republican ) 55.6% E. E. Patton ( Ind Rep ) 41.6% J . Brown ( Independent ) 2.9%
Tennessee 3 Sam D. McReynolds Democratic 1922 Incumbent re-elected Y Sam D. McReynolds ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 4 Cordell Hull Democratic 1922 Incumbent retired to run for U.S . Senator . New member elected . Democratic hold Y John Ridley Mitchell ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 5 Ewin L. Davis Democratic 1918 Incumbent re-elected Y Ewin L. Davis ( Democratic ) 92.0% George Motlow ( Republican ) 8.0%
Tennessee 6 Joseph W. Byrns Sr Democratic 1908 Incumbent re-elected Y Joseph W. Byrns Sr. ( Democratic ) 93.3% E. L. Bradbury ( Independent ) 6.7%
Tennessee 7 Edward Everett Eslick Democratic 1924 Incumbent re-elected Y Edward Everett Eslick ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 8 Gordon Browning Democratic 1922 Incumbent re-elected Y Gordon Browning ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 9 Jere Cooper Democratic 1928 Incumbent re-elected Y Jere Cooper ( Democratic ) Unopposed
Tennessee 10 Hubert Fisher Democratic 1916 Incumbent retired . New member elected . Democratic hold Y E. H. Crump ( Democratic ) 93.7% Herbert L. Harper ( Republican ) 3.9% Thomas B. Collier ( Democratic ) 2.4%
Tennessee
See also : List of United States Representatives from Tennessee
The 1930 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1930 which occurred in the middle of President Herbert Hoover's term. During the election cycle, the nation was entering its second year of the Great Depression. Hoover was perceived as doing little to solve the crisis, and his personal popularity was extremely low. His Republican Party was initially applauded for instituting protectionist economic policies, which were intended to limit imports to stimulate the domestic market. However, after the passage of the heavily damaging Smoot-Hawley Tariff, a policy that was bitterly opposed by the Democratic Party, public opinion turned sharply against Republican policies. Republican candidates across the country bore the blame for the economic collapse, and Democrats gained a total of 52 seats in the 1930 midterm elections. Even so, Republicans retained a narrow 2-seat majority after the polls closed. However, during the 13 months between Election Day and the start of the 72nd Congress, 14 members-elect died, and Republicans lost a number of the special elections called to fill those vacancies. Consequently, the Democrats held a 219-212 advantage over the Republicans when the new Congress convened. This was the first of four consecutive depression-era House elections in which Democrats made enormous gains, achieving a cumulative gain of 170 seats. Over the ensuing 64 years (until the 1994 midterm elections), House Republicans would be in the minority for all but four years, winning majorities only in 1946 and 1952.