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Carey Estes Kefauver (/ ˈ ɛ s t ɪ s ˈ k iː f ɔː v ər /; July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party , he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 until his death in 1963.
Carey Estes Kefauver ( /ˈɛstᵻs_ˈkiːfɔːvər/; 1 26 de julio de 1903 – 10 de agosto de 1963) fue un político estadounidense de Tennessee. Miembro del Partido Demócrada, fue miembro de la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos desde 1939 hasta 1949 y del Senado de los Estados Unidos desde 1949 hasta su muerte en 1963.
Estes Kefauver: A Featured Biography. Born in Tennessee in 1903, Carey Estes Kefauver first came to Capitol Hill in 1939 as a representative from Tennessee's Third Congressional District, then won a seat in 1948 to the United States Senate, where he served from 1949 until his untimely death in 1963.
15 de ene. de 2024 · Estes Kefauver was one of the few Southern Senators who didn't take the segregationist line on civil rights. A closer look at his record shows a man who evolved over time... but remained consistent in his belief in moderate progress and equal application of the law.
11 de ago. de 2019 · Kefauver gained national prominence and popularity as a result of the hearings. He was on the cover of Time magazine and co-wrote a book, Crime in America , about the...
18 de abr. de 2012 · All of it came courtesy of a deliberate-speaking, endlessly polite Southern senator in horn-rimmed glasses named Estes T. Kefauver.
In 1949 the American Municipal Association, representing more than 10,000 cities nationwide, petitioned the federal government to combat the growing influence of organized crime. First-term senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee drafted a resolution to create a special committee
