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Kefauver was born in Madisonville, the thinly-populated seat of government for Monroe County in southeastern Tennessee. He graduated from the [[University of Tennessee]] at [[Knoxville]] and taught high school for a year in Hot Springs, [[Arkansas]]. In 1927, he graduated from the [[Yale]] Law School and established his legal practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1939, he won the special election to fill the 3rd congressional district seat vacated by the death of fellow Democrat Sam D. McReynolds. In 1948, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, having unseated A. Thomas Stewart on the Democratic primary and won additional terms in 1954 and 1960, when his former rival Richard Nixon lost the pesidential race but carried Tennessee in the race against [[John F. Kennedy]], whom Kefauver had beaten for the vice-presidential slot in 1956.

Kefauver was born in Madisonville, the thinly-populated seat of government for Monroe County in southeastern Tennessee. He graduated from the [[University of Tennessee]] at [[Knoxville]] and taught high school for a year in Hot Springs, [[Arkansas]]. In 1927, he graduated from the [[Yale]] Law School and established his legal practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1939, he won the special election to fill the 3rd congressional district seat vacated by the death of fellow Democrat Sam D. McReynolds. In 1948, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, having unseated A. Thomas Stewart on the Democratic primary and won additional terms in 1954 and 1960, when his former rival Richard Nixon lost the pesidential race but carried Tennessee in the race against [[John F. Kennedy]], whom Kefauver had beaten for the vice-presidential slot in 1956.

In the 1948 Senate campaign, Kefauver began wearing a coonskin cap, seven years before the [[Walt Disney]] [[television]] series ran a multi-part presentation on [[Davy Crockett]], the 19th century Tennesseean who died at [[The Alamo]]. Kefauver began wearing the camp to protest the role of [[Mayor]] Edward Crump of [[Memphis]] in the campaign. Crump, often called "Boss Crump," had accused Kefauver of being a "fellow traveler" and of working for the "pinkos and [[Communism|communists]]" with the sneakiness of a [[raccoon]].  

In the 1948 Senate campaign, Kefauver began wearing a coonskin cap, seven years before the [[Walt Disney]] [[television]] series ran a multi-part presentation on [[Davy Crockett]], the 19th century Tennesseean who died at [[The Alamo]]; Disney cast Fess Parker to portray Crockett. Kefauver began wearing the camp to protest the role of [[Mayor]] Edward Crump of [[Memphis]] in the campaign. Crump, often called "Boss Crump," had accused Kefauver of being a "fellow traveler" and of working for the "pinkos and [[Communism|communists]]" with the sneakiness of a [[raccoon]].  

A staunch opponent of [[segregation]], Kefauver refused to sign the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' [[United States Supreme Court]] decree of May 17, 1954. He led numerous Senate investigations, including an attempt to determine if there was a link between the new medium of television and the increase in juvenile delinquency. He was particularly remembered for a probe conducted in 1950 into organized crime in an effort to expose the Mafia and Cosa Nostra. The Kefauver Committee, as it became know, heard from more than six hundred witnesses, the most spectacular being crime boss Frank Costello, who refused to allow his face to be filmed and then staged a walkout from the hearings.

A staunch opponent of [[segregation]], Kefauver refused to sign the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' [[United States Supreme Court]] decree of May 17, 1954. He led numerous Senate investigations, including an attempt to determine if there was a link between the new medium of television and the increase in juvenile delinquency. He was particularly remembered for a probe conducted in 1950 into organized crime in an effort to expose the Mafia and Cosa Nostra. The Kefauver Committee, as it became know, heard from more than six hundred witnesses, the most spectacular being crime boss Frank Costello, who refused to allow his face to be filmed and then staged a walkout from the hearings.