Estes Kefauver Fellowship Records
This collection houses correspondence, announcements, and news clippings between 1959 and 1964 documenting the development of a fellowship in Political Science honoring Estes Kefauver.
Dates
- 1959-1964
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses correspondence, announcements, and news clippings documenting the development of a fellowship in Political Science honoring Estes Kefauver.
Biographical/Historical Note
Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) was a U. S. House Representative (1939-1949), U. S. Senator (1950-1963), and 1956 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and Yale Law School in 1927. In 1935 he married Nancy Piggot, a native of Scotland.
During his years in the Senate, he served on the Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, and sponsored the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act of 1962. He lost favor among Southerners with his support of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision to desegregate schools and when he and Albert Gore, Sr., were the only southern senators to refuse to sign the Southern Manifesto, intended to block school integration, in 1956.
In 1952, he lost to Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, but in 1956 he was Stevenson's Vice Presidential running mate.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Acquisition Note
This collection was donated to University Archives.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository