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. |