Estes Kefauver
U.S. Congressperson
1903 – 1963
Who was Estes Kefauver?
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963.
After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, he twice sought his party's nomination for President of the United States. In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. Still holding his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket in 1956, Kefauver was named chair of the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death.
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- Born
- Jul 26, 1903
Madisonville - Also known as
- Carey Estes Kefauver
- Spouses
- Nancy Kefauver
( - 1967)
- Nancy Kefauver
- Religion
- Baptists
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- University of Tennessee
- Yale Law School
- Lived in
- Chattanooga
- Tennessee
- Died
- Aug 10, 1963
Bethesda
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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