CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · History & Society

1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia

U.S. Senate election in West Virginia

Layered newspapers, civic records and oral-history reels arranged as chronological evidence
History and societyInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ60770943 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 3, 1964, alongside the 1964 United States presidential election. Incumbent Senator Robert Byrd won re-election in a landslide.

Background

Incumbent Senator Robert Byrd ran for a second term in this election. President Lyndon B. Johnson also ran for re-election. Johnson won West Virginia by a very large margin. Johnson was also re-elected President of the United States in 1964. Democrats also gained two seats in the Senate in the 1964 United States Senate elections.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia” as u.S. Senate election in West Virginia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around United, States and Senate.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with United, States and Senate providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia”, the useful work is to connect “u.S. Senate election in West Virginia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60770943. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia primary sources, 1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia archive and United research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “1964 United States Senate election in West Virginia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.