Estes Kefauver
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United States Senator from Tennessee |
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In office January 3, 1949 – August 10, 1963 |
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| Preceded by | A. Thomas Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Herbert S. Walters |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 3rd district |
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In office September 13, 1939 – January 3, 1949 |
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| Preceded by | Sam D. McReynolds |
| Succeeded by | James B. Frazier Jr. |
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Carey Estes Kefauver July 26, 1903 Madisonville, Tennessee |
| Died | August 10, 1963 (aged 60) Bethesda, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Kefauver (1935–1967) |
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University of Tennessee Yale Law School |
| Religion | Baptist |
Carey Estes Kefauver (/ˈɛstᵻs ˈkiːfɔːvər/; July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) 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 until his death from a heart attack in Bethesda, Maryland, 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.
Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, the son of Phredonia Bradford (born Estes) and Robert Cooke Kefauver, a hardware manager.
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