1944 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts

Incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. resigned from the Senate on February 3, 1944, to return to active duty in the U.S. Army during World War II. Despite initial reporting that Governor Leverett Saltonstall would resign so that Lieutenant Governor Horace T. Cahill could appoint him to the vacant seat, he chose not to. Instead, on February 8, Saltonstall appointed Sinclair Weeks, whom Lodge had narrowly defeated at the party convention in 1936. A special election was scheduled on November 7, concurrent with the regularly scheduled elections to state and national office. ==Republican primary==

Candidates • Leverett Saltonstall, Governor of Massachusetts since 1939 Results Governor Saltonstall was unopposed for the Republican nomination. ==Democratic primary==

Candidates • John H. Corcoran, Mayor of Cambridge since 1942 • Joseph A. Langone Jr., former State Senator • Joseph Lee, former Boston School Committee member • Richard M. Russell, former United States Representative and Mayor of Cambridge Results {{Election box begin no change ==General election==

Candidates • John H. Corcoran, Mayor of Cambridge since 1942 (Democratic) • Bernard G. Kelly, nominee for Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1942 and Auditor in 1940 (Socialist Labor) • E. Tallmadge Root, nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in 1940 (Prohibition) • Leverett Saltonstall, Governor of Massachusetts since 1939 (Republican) Results {{Election box begin Though he was entitled to be seated immediately upon the certification of the election, Saltonstall did not take office until January 4, 1945, when his term as Governor ended. == See also ==