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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.

Kefauver was also was a strong advocate for consumer protection, aimed particularly at the pharmaceutical industry, and small business, which he claimed faced unfair competition from large conglomerates. In the House, he was strongly supportive of the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]]

Kefauver was also was a strong advocate for consumer protection, aimed particularly at the pharmaceutical industry, and small business, which he claimed faced unfair competition from large conglomerates. In the House, he was strongly supportive of the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]].

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]].