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'''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]]. he was his party's [[Vice President of the United States|vice presidential]] nominee in 1956, but he and party standard bearer Adlai Ewing Stevenson 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 Ewing Stevenson, II, lost the general election to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Richard M. Nixon]].
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.