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Crime in America / by Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee (May 10, 1950-May 1, 1951) Edited and with an introd. by Sidney Shalett.
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Estes
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1903
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1963
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A twentieth-century Congress / by Estes Kefauver and Dr. Jack Levin; foreword by Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
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Levin, Jack, 1941-
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Estes Kefauver
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Carey Estes Kefauver
(; 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.
After leading a
much-publicized investigation
into
organized crime
in the early 1950s, he twice sought his party's nomination for
President of the United States
. In
1956
, he was selected by the
Democratic National Convention
to be the running mate of presidential nominee
Adlai Stevenson
. He continued to hold his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson–Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower–Nixon ticket. Kefauver was named chair of the
U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death.
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