Estes Kefauver Senator

Carey Estes Kefauver (/ˈɛstɨs 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 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.

Personal facts

Birth date	July 26, 1903
Birth name	Carey Estes Kefauver
Birth place	Tennessee , Madisonville Tennessee
Nationality	United States
Religion	Baptists
Date of death	August 10, 1963
Place of death	Bethesda Maryland
Education	Yale Law School University of Tennessee