Kefauver, Estes, << KEE faw vuhr, EHS tihs >> (1903-1963), a United States congressman from Tennessee, won fame in 1950 as head of a U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime. He was the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1956. He and presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson lost to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
Kefauver was born on July 26, 1903, in Madisonville, Tennessee. He studied at the University of Tennessee and Yale University. He practiced law, and won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1939. He served in the House until he was elected to the Senate in 1948. He was reelected in 1954 and 1960. He died on Aug. 10, 1963.
