Estes Kefauver

by Fontenay, Charles L.

Estes Kefauver, Senator from Tennessee (1949-63), has been a perplexing figure: instigator and ringmaster of several important congressional probes--including the investigation into organized crime that first put him in the spotlight--and a serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and '56 (when he was Stevenson's running mate), Kefauver was often accused of demagoguery, laziness, and even of corruption (by Bobby Baker, an expert himself). Fontenay, a former Nashville newspaperman and friend of Kefauver's who did the work for a campaign biography, The Kefauver...

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