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| | NameTraq Last Name: Kefauver |
 | | Estes Kefauver of Tennessee visited New Hampshire so often and shook so many hands that some residents started referring to him as their ``third senator.''. | | | Estes Kefauver of Tennessee visited New Hampshire so often and shook so many hands that some residents started referring to him as their "third senator.". | | | In 1950, his bid to buy a Florida radio station was opposed by US Senator Estes Kefauver, who was heading a crime investigation. |
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http://www.nametraq.com/genealogy_jan04/K/Kefauver.shtml
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| | Carey Estes Kefauver Biography / Biography of Carey Estes Kefauver Biography |
| | The Kefauvers were a politically distinguished family: Estes' paternal great-grandfather was a successful banker who was elected to the Tennessee State Senate in 1847, while his maternal great-grandfather ran for Congress unsuccessfully against David Crockett in 1828. | | | Kefauver graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and three years later received a law degree cum laude from Yale University. | | | He returned to Tennessee, established a practice in Chattanooga, and during the next 12 years became one of the city's most suc..... |
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http://www.bookrags.com/biography-carey-estes-kefauver
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| | 12/3/2005 - Remembering Sen. Estes Kefauver - Memories - Chattanoogan.com |
| | Estes Kefauver joins the Chattanooga office of Col. Robert B. Cooke, who was a relative. | | | While in the Senate, Kefauver gains national attention as a reformer in committee hearings on organized crime, monopolies, and special interests. | | | At the library, I checked out “Estes Kefauver: A Biography” by Charles L. Fontenay, a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean who covered Kefauver’s 1948 U.S. Senate bid and the years thereafter. |
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http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_76782.asp
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| | American Experience Las Vegas: An Unconventional History People & Events PBS |
| | In 1952 and 1956, Kefauver ran for president, but was unsuccessful in his bid for the Democratic nomination. | | | While Kefauver's stance garnered increasing public support, casino operators in Las Vegas, anticipating the arrival of the committee, grew anxious. | | | In fact, the hearings persuaded local hoods that they were free from the law -- a Senate committee had come to town and nothing happened. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lasvegas/peopleevents/p_kefauver.html
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| | Kefauver Hearings |
| | Kefauver hearings - senators O'Conor, Kefauver, counsel Rudy Halley, from Life 1951/04/06 | | | The Senate established a Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, or the "rackets committee," that held hearings under John McClellan1957-1963. | | | George Levy and Virginia Hill at Kefauver hearings, from Life 1951/04/06 - 2 |
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http://history.acusd.edu/gen/filmnotes/kefauver.html
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| | AMAsearchdetail |
| | He was elected to the Senate in 1948, defeating Edward H. Crump, the boss of the Democratic machine in Tennessee. | | | In 1939 he was elected to the House of Representatives, and he served five successive terms. | | | However, the Republican ticket, led by Dwight D. Eisenhower, won by a large margin. |
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http://www.fofweb.com/onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=10212
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| | Jackson-Crockett's Tennessee Politics Timeline |
| | Hull was previously a Tennessee legislator, state judge, congressman and U.S. Senator. | | | At the Democratic Convention, Clement delivers the Keynote Address, and both senators are among the top-three finishers for the vice presidential nomination, an astonishing presence by one state's leaders. | | | In the General Election, Kefauver handily defeats Republican nominee Congressman B. Carroll Reece. |
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http://www.hermitage.com/tennpol.htm
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| | [Letter] 1961 March 8 [to] Francis E. Walter, Washington, D.C. / Estes Kefauver. |
| | The recipient of the letter, Francis E. Walter, served in World War II and as a Representative from Pennsylvania in the seventy-third and fifteen succeeding Congresses, serving from 1933 until his death May 31, 1963. | | | [Letter] 1961 March 8 [to] Francis E. Walter, Washington, D.C. / Estes Kefauver. |
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http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/remain/778
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| | Sequart.com Columns > Sequential Culture #44: The End of Seduction, Act Three |
| | A Democrat born in 1903, Estes Kefauver had been aTennessee lawyer before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1939. | | | Lucas urged Kefauver, a fellow Democrat, to stay away from Chicago's then-emerging police scandal until after the elections, but Kefaufer refused. | | | Shortly before the election, a scandal broke about secret documents stolen from the committee and hurt Democratic returns, causing Lucas to lose the election and making Dirksen, the Republican victor, a national hero for defeating the presumably corrupt Senate majority leader. |
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http://www.sequart.com/columns/index.php?col=2&column=719
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| | Ties to Estes Kefauver |
| | Their son Carey Estes Kefauver (Senator Kefauver) married Nancy Patterson Pigott | | | Joel Estes, captain in the War of 1812 married Sarah Langhorne Bates | | | Their son Louis Powhatan Estes married Eliza Mildred Moore |
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http://www.samizdat.com/gen/estes/kefauver.html
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| | 1954-1964 bonny oaks scrapbooks |
| | Senator Estes Kefauver pictured with the children and adults in the Vice President's office, Washington, D.C. 2a | | | Annie Rawls, Counselor, Arnold Campbell, Principal, Frank Lewis, Bus Driver, and Tennessee Senator, Estes Kefauver. | | | Back row: Warren Dodd (driver), Clarence Sumner, Ronnie Yarbrough, Senator Estes Kefauver, Jimmy Mathis, Ann Gregory, and Malcolm M. Adamson, Supt. |
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http://www.bonnyoaks.com/1954-1964_pgs_1-12.htm
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| | MS 2337: The Estes Kefauver Papers, 1943-1964 |
| | Item 14: Letter to Kefauver from Senator Hubert H. Humphrey about the appointment of Judge Irving Kaufman as a Circuit Judge in the Second Circuit; dated January 19, 1957 | | | There are two letters that do not pertain to Kefauver, both of which are to Edwin Michael Hoffman of North Carolina. | | | Item 56: Letter to Kefauver from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy about the appointment of Harry Mansfield as the Eastern District of TN Marshal; dated November 21, 1961 |
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http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/manuscripts/ms2337fa.html
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| | History |
| | A native of Madisonville, the late Estes Kefauver served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1939; and later was elected to the U.S. Senate where he served until his death in 1963. | | | Kefauver twice ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. | | | Estes Kefauver became well-known for his chairmanship of the committee to investigate organized crime, which was televised in 1950 and '51. |
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http://www.cityofmadisonville.org/history.htm
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| | Metro Pulse/Secret History/Kefauver Redux |
| | During his first term in the senate, Kefauver was a member of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. | | | It seems that some younger folks do know the name Kefauver, but not for his civil-rights record, his investigations of the mob, his battle against McCarthyism, or his defense of TVA against Republican charges that the agency was a socialist plot. | | | My column about poor Estes Kefauver, nearly forgotten in his home region 40 years after his tenure as one of the most influential U.S. senators of the 20th century, brought out a few ironies. |
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http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2003/1332/t_secret.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Cary-Estes-Moore genealogy: Books: Helen Estes Seltzer |
| | His grandson Benjamin married Cecelia Rebecca Thorp, connecting the Estes family with the historical Tripletts and Masseys of Virginia. | | | Scottish in origin, the Moore familyi has played an important role in protestantism in America, producing founders of the Methodist Church in America, presidents of Methodist colleges, and many circuit-riding preachers for rural Tennessee. | | | Many prominent Tennesseans, including the Rices, the Folks, the Manns, the Walkers, and senator and vide-presidential candidate Estes Kefauver number among his descendants. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0931968011?v=glance
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| | What's My Line?: EPISODE #42 - TV.com |
| | Senator Carey Estes Kefauver: Born in 1903, he served in the Senate from 1949 until he died in office in 1963. | | | Another byproduct of the Kefauver Hearings was that it helped gain national attention for a young senator from Massachusetts and his younger brother, who was acting as prosecutor. | | | As a Senator, Kefauver made his mark in the fight against organized crime. |
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http://www.tv.com/episode/92670/summary.html
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| | The Senate Investigation |
| | Kefauver, a Tennessee lawyer who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1939, ran a successful race for a Senate seat in 1948. | | | Robert Hendrickson was the chairman of the Senate subcommittee during the period in which the committee held its comic book hearings, but the committee is often referred to as the Kefauver committee, and when the 1954 elections returned control of Congress to the Democrats, Kefauver was given the chairmanship of the juvenile delinquency subcommittee. | | | He rose to national prominence for his investigation of organized crime in the United States beginning in 1950. |
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http://www.crimeboss.com/history03-1.html
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| | Kefauver served in the U.S. House of representatives from 1938 until 1948. | | | An overnight fire in Madisonville seriously damaged the family home of former U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver. | | | Officials estimate that 50% of the house is a loss, with extensive water and smoke damage throughout. |
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http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=31476&provider=rss
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| | Fontenay (1980) Estes Kefauver, a biography |
| | United States; Congress; Senate; Biography; Politics and government; 1945-1989; Legislators; Kefauver, Estes | | | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. |
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=101978810&showStat=Ratings
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| | ACSH > Health Issues > |
| | The ensuing scandal attracted the attention of both the Kefauver Committee and a select committee chaired by Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey. | | | One of Senator Kefauver's staff members spotted one account in the New York Times and congressional scrutiny was soon underway. | | | Such an occurrence coincided with Senator Estes Kefauver's 1959 investigation of a drug industry believed to be far too avaricious for the public's interest. |
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http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.618/healthissue_detail.asp
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| | Senator Robert Torricelli lies about remembering the Estes Kefauver hearings |
| | When the Kefauver hearings ended in 1951, Senator Torricelli, born August 26, 1951, was only FIVE DAYS OLD!! | | | In 1950, Estes Kefauver pioneered the use of television in politics when he chaired a Senate investigation into organized crime. | | | Maybe that's why he doesn't realize that Frank Costello and his Mafia buddies were condemned for their criminal activities, not their ethnicity! |
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http://www.gargaro.com/kefauver.html
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| | The Government and Politics Collections |
| | MS 0837 Senator Estes Kefauver Collection, 827k File | | | MS 0478 Senator Estes Kefauver Memorial Foundation Papers, 1963-1969 | | | MS 0640 United States Food and Drug Administration Papers, 1917-1918 |
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http://www.lib.utk.edu/spcoll/searchms/gov_polit.html
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| | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 79028299 |
| | Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963, United States Politics and government 1945-1989, Legislators United States Biography, United States, Congress, Senate Biography | | | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 79028299 | | | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy052/79028299.html
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| | Kefauver hearings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Between 1950 and 1951, the Kefauver Committee, officially the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, held all of America's attention. | | | Kefauver became a national hero for exhibiting not only his adept questioning skills of crime figures, but for his low key approach to dealing with them. | | | Headed by Estes Kefauver, the committee traveled the country, investigating all levels of corruption. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefauver_hearings
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| | Notes for The Forgotten Battles: Congressional Hearings on Television Violence in the 1950s |
| | Statements from both Senator Hendrickson in 1954 and Senator Kefauver in 1955 leads one to assume that television and radio reporters covered the hearings although the record never states this as such. | | | Joseph Bruce Gorman, Kefauver: A Political Biography (NY: Oxford University Press, 1971), 197. | | | Charles Fontenay, Estes Kefauver: A Biography (TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 1980), 31. |
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http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/wjmcr/vol02/2-3a-n.htm
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| | Search Results for "Estes" |
| | ...Kefauver, Carey Estes, (kefovr) (KEY), 1903-63, U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1949-63), b. | | | Evanston, Ill. One of the best-known American exponents of photorealism, Estes is noted for his street scenes.... | | | ...Investigation and the Knapp CommissionIn 1950-51, the crime-investigating committee of Sen. Estes Kefauver revealed that organized crime, albeit under new leadership,... |
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http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Estes
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| | Estes Kefauver was running for president in 1956 and reporters were on | | | good friends, "I gave lots of money to his campaign here in Tennessee, you know, Boy."Estes Kefauver made sure there | | | man whose immortal words to Kefauver were duly reported, and then preserved |
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http://www.dory-funk.com/n-gulas.html
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| | Michigan State University Libraries - Vincent Voice Library |
| | (1955) Estes Kefauver announcing his candidacy for t... | | | Map to the VVL in the MSU Main Library | | | The recordings may be used in publications and presentations only with the permission and acknowledgment of the Vincent Voice Library. |
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http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/showfindingaid.cfm?findaidid=Kefauver
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| | 1950 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | January 5 - U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the U.S. January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. | | | The book quickly becomes a bestseller, selling out of its first two editions immediately. | | | May 11 - Kefauver Committee hearings about US organized crime begin |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950
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| | TomFolio.com: Organized Crime in America: a Book of Readings, Tyler, Gus (Introduction by Estes Kefauver), Ba |
| | Compiled from a variety of reports, articles, court records, interviews with gangsters, etc., to provide a survey of Prohibition, narcotics, gangs of old New York, the Mafia, labor rackets, and much more. | | | Bound in white cloth over boards with black and blue stamped lettering to spine, star on upper board, dark blue topstain and red fore edge stain. | | | Contributors include Herbert Asbury, Robert F. Kennedy, Estes Kefauver, Gay Talese, and others. |
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http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp?book=6583&mem=106
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| | family genealogy, history, photos: Seltzer, Estes, Daly, Bogan, Kefauver |
| | Plan for Peace -- a Model by Richard Warren Seltzer, Sr., | | | Autobiography of Virginia Bradford, silent film star and Estes relative | | | Estes Listings from the Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy, written and complied by Helen Estes Seltzer, published 1981, and continuously update here on the Web |
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| | Estes kefauver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Look for Estes kefauver in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project. | | | Start the Estes kefauver article or add a request for it. | | | Look for Estes kefauver in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/estes_kefauver
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