Estes Kefauver Federal Finance Letter
Collection
Identifier: MPA-0219
This collection consists of one letter and one envelope from February 6, 1963, to Mr. Stephen R. Phelan of Memphis, TN, from Senator Estes Kefauver explaining federal spending and the deficit, as well as thanking Mr. Phelan for his ideas and a grasp of what citizens want.
Dates
- 1963 February 6
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection consists of one letter and one envelope from February 6, 1963, to Mr. Stephen R. Phelan of Memphis, TN, from Senator Estes Kefauver explaining federal spending and the deficit, as well as thanking Mr. Phelan for his ideas and a grasp of what citizens want.
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 Piggott, 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, intending 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.
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, intending 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.
Previous Citation
This collection was previously listed as MS.2364.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository