Estes Kefauver

Estes Kefauver
Kefauver in 1951
United States Senator from Tennessee
In office January 3, 1949 – August 10, 1963
Preceded by	Tom Stewart
Succeeded by	Herbert S. Walters
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 3rd district
In office September 13, 1939 – January 3, 1949
Preceded by	Sam D. McReynolds
Succeeded by	James B. Frazier Jr.
Personal details
Born	Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-07-26)July 26, 1903 Madisonville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	August 10, 1963(1963-08-10) (aged 60) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Nancy Patterson Pigott ​ ​ (m. 1935)​ [1]
Children	4
Education	University of Tennessee (BA) Yale University (LLB)

Carey Estes Kefauver (/ˈɛstɪs ˈkiːfɔːvər/ EST-iss KEE-faw-vər;^[2] 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 U.S. Senate from 1949 until 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. He continued to hold his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson–Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower–Nixon ticket. Kefauver was named chair of the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death.