This is a list of endorsements for declared candidates in the Republican primaries for the 1928 United States presidential election .
This list only includes endorsements by notable individuals and organizations which have been reported in reliable independent sources. Endorsement by individuals does not imply endorsement by their organization.
Herbert Hoover
List of Herbert Hoover endorsements
U.S. Executive Branch officials
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Former
U.S. Senators
Current
Former
U.S. Representatives
Current
Harry Lane Englebright , U.S. Representative from CA-2 (1926–1943)[22]
Charles Curry , U.S. Representative from CA-3 (1913–1930)[22]
Florence Kahn , U.S. Representative from CA-4 (1925–1937)[22]
Richard Welch , U.S. Representative from CA-5 (1926–1949)[22]
Albert Carter , U.S. Representative from CA-6 (1925–1945)[22]
Henry Barbour , U.S. Representative from CA-7 (1919–1933)[22]
Arthur Free , U.S. Representative from CA-8 (1921–1933)[22]
William Evans , U.S. Representative from CA-9 (1927–1933)[22]
Joe Crail , U.S. Representative from CA-10 (1927–1933)[22]
Phil Swing , U.S. Representative from CA-11 (1921–1933)[22]
James Good , U.S. Representative from IO-5 (1909–1921)[23]
Maurice Thatcher , U.S. Representative from KY-5 (1923–1933)[24]
Katherine Langley , U.S. Representative from KY-10 (1927–1931)[24]
James Begg , U.S. Representative from OH-13 (1919–1929)[25]
Theodore Burton , U.S. Representative from OH-21 (1921–1928)[26]
Edith Rogers , U.S. Representative from MA-5 (1925–1960)[27]
John Ketcham , U.S. Representative from MI-4 (1921–1933)[28]
Louis Cramton , U.S. Representative from MI-7 (1913–1931)[29]
Walter Newton , U.S. Representative from MN-5 (1919–1929)[16]
Leonidas C. Dyer , U.S. Representative from MO-12 (1915–1933)[27]
Robert Bacon , U.S. Representative from NY-1 (1923–1938)[30]
Thaddeus Sweet , U.S. Representative from NY-32 (1923–1928)[6]
John Clarke , U.S. Representative from NY-34 (1927–1933)[31]
Gale Stalker , U.S. Representative from NY-37 (1923–1935)[32]
James Beck , U.S. Representative from PA-1 (1927–1933)[33] [34]
George Graham , U.S. Representative from PA-2 (1913–1931)[33] [34]
George Welsh , U.S. Representative from PA-6 (1923–1932)[33] [34]
Thomas Butler , U.S. Representative from PA-8 (1923–1928)[33] [34]
Cyrus Palmer , U.S. Representative from PA-13 (1927–1929)[33] [34]
Robert Bushong , U.S. Representative from PA-14 (1927–1929)[33] [34]
Louis McFadden , U.S. Representative from PA-15 (1915–1935)[33] [34]
Edgar Kiess , U.S. Representative from PA-16 (1923–1930)[33] [34]
Edward Beers , U.S. Representative from PA-18 (1923–1932)[33] [34]
Isaac Doutrich , U.S. Representative from PA-19 (1927–1937)[33] [34]
Russell Leech , U.S. Representative from PA-20 (1927–1932)[33] [34]
Jacob Kurtz , U.S. Representative from PA-23 (1923–1933)[33] [34]
Samuel Kendall , U.S. Representative from PA-24 (1927–1933)[33] [34]
Henry Temple , U.S. Representative from PA-25 (1923–1933)[33] [34]
J. Howard Swick , U.S. Representative from PA-26 (1927–1935)[33] [34]
Nathan Strong , U.S. Representative from PA-27 (1917–1935)[33] [34]
Thomas Cochran , U.S. Representative from PA-28 (1927–1933)[33] [34]
Milton Shreve , U.S. Representative from PA-29 (1923–1933)[33]
Adam Wyant , U.S. Representative from PA-31 (1927–1933)[33] [34]
Stephen Porter , U.S. Representative from PA-32 (1923–1930)[33] [34]
M. Clyde Kelly , U.S. Representative from PA-33 (1923–1933)[33] [34]
John Morin , U.S. Representative from PA-34 (1923–1929)[33] [34]
Harry Estep , U.S. Representative from PA-35 (1927–1933)[33] [34]
Guy Campbell , U.S. Representative from PA-36 (1923–1933)[33] [34]
Richard Aldrich , U.S. Representative from RI-2 (1923–1933)[16]
Will Taylor , U.S. Representative from TN-2 (1919–1939)[35]
C. Bascom Slemp , U.S. Representative from VA-9 (1907–1923)[27]
Albert Johnson , U.S. Representative from RI-2 (1913–1933)[16]
Former
Governors
Current
Former
Statewide officials
State legislators
Local officials
Party officials
Individuals
Henry Ford , businessman[50]
William Donovan , soldier and lawyer[6]
Meier Steinbrink , lawyer[31]
William Thompson , President of Ohio State University [42]
Charles Taft , lawyer[51]
William Procter , head of Procter & Gamble [52]
John Hays Hammond , mining engineer , diplomat, and philanthropist[53]
Allen Hazen [53]
Walter Aldridge mining and metallurgical engineer[53]
Louis S. Cates mining engineer and businessman[54]
Lillian Gilbreth , psychologist , industrial engineer , consultant, and educator[55]
Mark Requa , mining engineer and petroleum conservationist[56]
Eugene McAuliffe, President of the Union Pacific Coal Company [57]
Samuel Vauclain , President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works [57]
George Akerson , journalist[58]
Edward Orton Jr. , academic administrator, businessman, ceramic engineer, geologist, and philanthropist[59]
August Mencken , civil engineer and author[60]
Harry Guggenheim , businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman[12]
Michael Pupin , physicist , physical chemist and philanthropist[12]
Charles A. Stone, electrical engineer [12]
A.W. Berresford, President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers [12]
Ambrose Swasey , mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist[12]
Elmer Sperry , inventor and entrepreneur[12]
Elihu Thomson , engineer and inventor[12]
John Quinn , national commander of the American Legion [5]
Harriot Stanton Blatch , writer and suffragist[61]
Amelita Galli-Curci , coloratura soprano [61]
Felix Warburg , banker[61]
John Philip Sousa , composer and conductor[61]
George Haven Putnam , publisher, soldier, and writer[61]
Anthony Fiala , explorer[61]
Daniel Beard , illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer[61]
Christopher Morley , journalist, novelist, essayist and poet[61]
Ernest Poole , journalist, novelist, and playwright[61]
Sophie Kerr , writer[61]
Ellis Parker Butler , author[61]
Margaret Widdemer , poet and novelist[61]
Meade Minnigerode , writer[61]
Arthur Guiterman , writer[61]
Will Irwin , author, writer and journalist[61]
Earl Derr Biggers , novelist and playwright[61]
Jesse S. Phillips , lawyer, politician, and insurance executive[19]
Thomas C. Desmond , engineer[19]
Herman Bernstein , journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, Jewish activist, and diplomat[62]
Clayton Hamilton , drama critic[62]
Mary Brooks Picken , author[62]
Annie Nathan Meyer , author[62]
Edmund Pearson , librarian and author[62]
Clarence Perry , urban planner, sociologist, author, and educator[62]
Thomas Edison , inventor and businessman[63]
Organizations
Newspapers
Frank Lowden
List of Frank Lowden endorsements
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
Lester Dickinson , U.S. Representative from IA-10 (1919–1931)[70]
William Johnson , U.S. Representative from IL-13 (1925–1933)[71]
John Allen , U.S. Representative from IL-14 (1925–1933)[71]
William Hull , U.S. Representative from IL-16 (1923–1933)[71]
Homer Hall , U.S. Representative from IL-17 (1927–1933)[71]
William Holaday , U.S. Representative from IL-18 (1923–1933)[71]
Charles Adkins , U.S. Representative from IL-19 (1925–1933)[71]
Edward Irwin , U.S. Representative from IL-22 (1925–1931)[71]
Thomas Williams , U.S. Representative from IL-24 (1915–1929)[71]
Edward Denison , U.S. Representative from IL-25 (1915–1931)[71]
Governors
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Former
Statewide officials
State legislators
Local officials
Party officials
Willis Stern, Republican State chairman for Iowa [79]
Individuals
Organizations
Newspapers
George Norris
List of George Norris endorsements
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
Governors
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State legislators
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Charles Curtis
List of Charles Curtis endorsements
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
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Frank Willis
List of Frank Willis endorsements
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
Roy Fitzgerald , U.S. Representative from OH-3 (1921–1931)[101]
William Fitzgerald , U.S. Representative from OH-4 (1925–1929)[101]
Charles Thompson , U.S. Representative from OH-5 (1919–1931)[101]
Charles Kearns , U.S. Representative from OH-6 (1915–1931)[101]
Charles Brand , U.S. Representative from OH-7 (1923–1933)[101]
Thomas Jenkins , U.S. Representative from OH-10 (1925–1959)[101]
John Speaks , U.S. Representative from OH-12 (1921–1931)[101]
C. Ellis Moore , U.S. Representative from OH-15 (1919–1933)[101]
B. Frank Murphy , U.S. Representative from OH-18 (1919–1933)[101]
Charles Knight , U.S. Representative from OH-14 (1921–1923)[102]
Governors
Statewide officials
State legislators
Local officials
Party officials
Wilma Sinclair Levan, Republican National Committeewoman (R-OH)[102]
Individuals
Newspapers
Organizations
James Watson
List of James Watson endorsements
U.S. Executive Branch officials
U.S. Senators
U.S. Representatives
Harry Rowbottom , U.S. Representative from IN-1 (1925–1931)[103]
Noble Johnson , U.S. Representative from IN-5 (1925–1931)[103]
Richard Elliott , U.S. Representative from IN-6 (1917–1931)[103]
Ralph Updike , U.S. Representative from IN-7 (1925–1929)[103]
Albert Henry Vestal , U.S. Representative from IN-8 (1917–1932)[103]
Fred Purnell , U.S. Representative from IN-9 (1917–1933)[103]
William R. Wood , U.S. Representative from IN-10 (1915–193)[103]
Albert Hall , U.S. Representative from IN-11 (1925–1931)[103]
David Hogg , U.S. Representative from IN-12 (1925–1933)[103]
Andrew Hickey , U.S. Representative from IN-13 (1919–1931)[103]
Governors
Statewide officials
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Individuals
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