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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeKEFAUVER, Carey Estes
(1903—1963)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1963
Party:
Democrat
KEFAUVER, 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.
Anderson, Jack, and Frederick G. Blumenthal. The Kefauver Story
. New York: Dial Press, 1956.
Brogan, Hugh. All Honorable Men: Huey Long, Robert Moses, Estes Kefauver, Richard J. Daley
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Derr, Jeanine. “ ‘The Biggest Show on Earth’: The Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings.” Maryland Historian
17 (Fall/Winter 1986): 19-37.
Doig, Ivan. “Kefauver versus Crime: Television Boosts a Senator.” Journalism Quarterly
39 (Autumn 1962): 483-90.
Fontenay, Charles L. Estes Kefauver, A Biography
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.
Gardner, James Bailey. “Political Leadership in a Period of Transition: Frank G. Clement, Albert Gore, Estes Kefauver, and Tennessee Politics, 1948-1956.” Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1978.
Gorman, Joseph Bruce. “The Early Career of Estes Kefauver.” East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications
42 (1970): 57-84.
___. Kefauver: A Political Biography
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Grant, Philip A., Jr. “Kefauver and the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. ‘’ Tennessee Historical Quarterly
31 (Winter 1972): 372-80.
___. “Senator Estes Kefauver and the 1956 Minnesota Presidential Primary.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly
42 (Winter 1983): 383-92.
Harris, Richard. The Real Voice
. New York: Macmillan Co., 1964.
Kefauver, Estes. “The Challenge to Congress.” Federal Bar Journal
6 (April 1945): 325-32.
___. “Congressional Reorganization.” Journal of Politics
9 (February 1947): 96-107.
___. Crime in America
. Edited by Sidney Shalett. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. Based on hearings and reports of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce.
___. “Did We Modernize Congress?” National Municipal Review
36 (November 1947): 552-57.
___. “Executive—Congressional Liaison.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
289 (September 1953): 108-13.
___. “The House of Representatives Should Participate in Treaty Making.” Tennessee Law Review
19 (December 1945): 44-51.
___. “The Need For Better Executive-Legislative Teamwork in the National Government.” American Political Science Review
38 (April 1944): 317-25.
___, and Jack Levin. A Twentieth-Century Congress
. 1947. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
___, with Irene Till. In a Few Hands: Monopoly Power in America
. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.
Lisby, Gregory C. “Early Television on Public Watch: Kefauver and His Crime Investigation.” Journalism Quarterly
62 (Summer 1985): 236-42.
McFadyen, Richard Edward. “Estes Kefauver and the Drug Industry.” Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1973.
___. “Estes Kefauver and the Tradition of Southern Progressivism.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly
37 (Winter 1978): 430-43.
Moore, William Howard. “The Kefauver Committee and Organized Crime.” In Law and Order in American History
, edited by Joseph M. Hawes, pp. 136-47. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1979.
___. The Kefauver Committee and the Politics of Crime, 1950-1952.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974.
___. “Was Estes Kefauver ‘Blackmailed’ During the Chicago Crime Hearings?: A Historian’s Perspective.” Public Historian
4 (Winter 1982): 5-28.
Swados, Harvey. Standing Up for the People: The Life and Work of Estes Kefauver
. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1972.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Carey Estes Kefauver, Late a Senator from Tennessee
. 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1964.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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