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| name=Carey Estes Kefauver
| name=Carey Estes Kefauver
| image=Estes Kefauver TN.jpg
| image=Estes Kefauver TN.jpg
| birth_date=July 26, 1903
| birth_place=Madisonville<br>Monroe County<br>Tennessee
| death_date=August 10, 1963 (aged 60)
| death_place=Bethesda, [[Maryland]]
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| nationality=[[United States|American]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| preceded2=Sam D. McReynolds<br>(died in office)
| preceded2=Sam D. McReynolds<br>(died in office)
| succeeded2=James B. Frazier, Jr.
| succeeded2=James B. Frazier, Jr.
| resting_place=Kefauver Family Cemetery in Madisonville
| resting_place=Kefauver Family Cemetery in Madisonville
| alma_mater=[[University of Tennessee]] <br> [[Yale]] Law School
| alma_mater=[[University of Tennessee]]<br>[[Yale]] Law School
| spouse=Nancy Pigott Kefauver (married 1935–1963, his death)
| spouse=Nancy Pigott Kefauver (married 1935–1963, his death)
| children=Four children (one adopted)
| children=Four children (one adopted)
'''Carey Estes Kefauver''', known as '''Estes Kefauver''' (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963), was an avowedly [[liberal]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from his native U.S. state of [[Tennessee]]. Kefauver was his party's [[Vice President of the United States|vice presidential]] nominee in 1956, but he and party standard bearer [[Adlai Stevenson|Adlai Ewing Stevenson, II]], lost the general election to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]].
'''Carey Estes Kefauver''', known as '''Estes Kefauver''' (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963), was an avowedly [[liberal]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from his native U.S. state of [[Tennessee]]. Kefauver was his party's [[Vice President of the United States|vice presidential]] nominee in 1956, but he and party standard bearer [[Adlai Stevenson|Adlai Ewing Stevenson, II]], lost the general election to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]].
Kefauver was born to a hardware merchant 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.
==Early life and career==
Kefauver was born to a hardware merchant 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.
==Political career==
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 Tennessean 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]].
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 Tennessean 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]].
In 1952, in his failed challenge to deny re-nomination to President [[Harry Truman]], who decided to retire from office, Kefauver won twelve of the then fifteen party primaries, but the nomination went to the choice of the party leaders, Adlai Stevenson, the outgoing [[governor]] of [[Illinois]]. Kefauver lost again to Stevenson at the 1956 convention, but when Stevenson allowed the delegates to choose the vice-presidential candidate rather than making the selection himself, the delegates picked Kefauver in a close competition with fellow Senator John F. Kennedy of [[Massachusetts]].
In 1952, in his failed challenge to deny re-nomination to President [[Harry Truman]], who decided to retire from office, Kefauver won twelve of the then fifteen party primaries, but the nomination went to the choice of the party leaders, Adlai Stevenson, the outgoing [[governor]] of [[Illinois]]. Kefauver lost again to Stevenson at the 1956 convention, but when Stevenson allowed the delegates to choose the vice-presidential candidate rather than making the selection himself, the delegates picked Kefauver in a close competition with fellow Senator John F. Kennedy of [[Massachusetts]].
A heavy smoker and drinker despite his [[Baptist]] faith, Kefauver died of a ruptured aortic aneurysmn in Bethesda. [[Maryland]]. He is interred at the Kefauver Family Cemetery in Madisonville, Tennessee. His Senate seat passed temporarily by gubernatorial appointment to Herbert S. Walters (1891-1973), a Democrat for whom Walters State Community College in Morristown in Hamblen County, Tennessee, is named.
A heavy smoker and drinker despite his [[Baptist]] faith, Kefauver died of a ruptured aortic aneurysmn in Bethesda. [[Maryland]]. He is interred at the Kefauver Family Cemetery in Madisonville, Tennessee. His Senate seat passed temporarily by gubernatorial appointment to Herbert S. Walters (1891–1973), a Democrat for whom Walters State Community College in Morristown in Hamblen County, Tennessee, is named.
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