Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963

LC control no.	n 79144615
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kefauver, Carey Estes, 1903-1963
Birth date	1903-07-26
Death date	1963-08-10
Place of birth	Madisonville, Tenn.
Place of death	Bethesda, Md.
Affiliation	University of Tennessee, Knoxville Yale University United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers
Found in	U.S. Cong. H. Comm. on the judiciary. Amending the Bankruptcy act ... Report ... 1944. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website, viewed July 29, 2013 (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.) OCLC, July 31, 2013 (access points: Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963, Kefauver, Estes, Kefauver, Carey E., Kefauver, Estes, (Carey Estes), 1903-1963, Kefauver, Carey Estes, Kefauver, Carey Estes, 1903-1963; usage: Estes Kefauver [predominant form], Carey Estes Kefauver)
Associated language	eng