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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeCarey Estes KEFAUVER
(1903-1963)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1963Party: DemocratKEFAUVER, Carey Estes, a
Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born on a farm near
Madisonville, Monroe County, Tenn., July 26, 1903; attended the
public schools; graduated from the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville in 1924 and from the law department of Yale University,
New Haven, Conn., in 1927; admitted to the bar in 1926 and
commenced practice in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1927; unsuccessful
candidate for the State senate in 1936; State commissioner of
finance and taxation 1939; elected on September 13, 1939, as a
Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Sam D. McReynolds; reelected to the Seventy-seventh
and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from September
13, 1939, to January 3, 1949; did not seek renomination in 1948;
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1948;
reelected in 1954, and again in 1960, and served from January 3,
1949, until his death in the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md.,
August 10, 1963; gained national attention as chairman of the
Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
(Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), better known as the
”Kefauver Committee”; unsuccessful candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956; unsuccessful
Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States in 1956
on the ticket with Adlai Stevenson; interment in the family
cemetery, Madisonville, Tenn.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Fontenay, Charles. Estes Kefauver, A
Biography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980;
Moore, William Howard. The Kefauver Committee and the Politics
of Crime, 1950-1952. Columbia: University of Missouri Press,
1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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