What is Estes Kefauver?
{{Infobox Senator | birthname=Carey Estes Kefauver | nationality=American | image name=SenatorKefauver(D-TN).jpg | jr/sr =Senior Senator | state=[[Tennessee]] | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | term_start=January 3, 1949 | term_end=August 10, 1963 | preceded=[[Tom Stewart|A. Thomas Stewart]] | succeeded= [[Herbert S. Walters]] | state2=[[Tennessee]] | district2=[[Tennessee's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] | term_start2=September 13, 1939 | term_end2 =January 3, 1949 | preceded2=[[Sam D. McReynolds]] | succeeded2=[[James B. Frazier, Jr.]] | birth_date={{birth date|1903|7|26|mf=y}} | birth_place=[[Madisonville, Tennessee]] | death_date={{death date and age |1963|8|10|1903|7|26}} | death_place=[[Bethesda, Maryland]] | spouse=Nancy Kefauver (1911-1967) }} '''Carey Estes Kefauver''' (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]] from [[Tennessee]]. He was the Vice Presidential running mate in the [[United States presidential election, 1956|1956 election]]. He ran for [[President of the United States]] in the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952]]. ==Early life== Kefauver was born in [[Madisonville, Tennessee]], to Robert Cooke Kefauver and Phredonia Bradford (née Estes). Robert Kefauver was a hardware manager. Estes attended the [[University of Tennessee]] from 1922 to 1924, receiving a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree and being initiated into the [[Kappa Sigma]] Fraternity. After a year of teaching mathematics and coaching football at a [[Hot Springs, Arkansas]], high school, he attended [[Yale Law School]], where he received a [[Bachelor of Laws|LL.B.]] ''cum laude'' in 1927. The next twelve years Kefauver practiced law in Chattanooga, first with the firm of Cooke, Swaney & Cooke, as a partner in Sizer, Chambliss & Kefauver, and later in the firm of Duggan, McDonald, & Kefauver. In 1935 he married Nancy Pigott, who is from [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], [[United Kingdom]], whom he had met during her visit to relatives in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]. They ha