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Finding Aid for the Estes Kefauver Papers, 1933-1939


MS-2025

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, November 16, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Estes Kefauver Papers

Date/Date Range :   1933-1939

Extent: 1.0 linear feet

Abstract:
The Estes Kefauver Collection houses letters from family members (Folder 10), materials documenting Kefauver's sister Nancy's stay in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital (Folders 15,37), letters from Kefauver's admirers (Folders 5-9, 11-13, 27, 29-31), and letters from Kefauver's wife, Nancy Piggot Kefauver, while she was in Glasgow, Scotland (Folders 16-21). Interested researchers may also wish to consult Kefauver's political papers in UTK-MS-0837.

Call number: MS-2025

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
This collection is property of the University of Tennessee's Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Estes Kefauver Papers, MS-2025. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of one box.


Biography / History

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.


Collection Scope and Content Note

The Estes Kefauver Collection houses letters from family members (Folder 10), materials documenting Kefauver's sister Nancy's stay in the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital (Folders 15, 37), letters from Kefauver's admirers (Folders 5-9, 11-13, 27, 29-31), and letters from Kefauver's wife, Nancy Piggot Kefauver, while she was in Glasgow, Scotland (Folders 16-21). Interested researchers may also wish to consult Kefauver's political papers in UTK-MS-0837.

Subject Terms

  • Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
  • Kefauver, Nancy Piggot, 1912-1967 -- Correspondence.
  • United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Contents List
Box   1     Folder   1    
Bills, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   2    
Business, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   3    
Empty Envelopes, 1934-1938
Box   1     Folder   4    
Invitations/Announcements, 1934-1938
Box   1     Folder   5    
Letters: A.S.P., 1935
Box   1     Folder   6    
Letters: Anderson, Naomi, 1934 September
Box   1     Folder   7    
Letters: Anderson, Naomi, 1934 October
Box   1     Folder   8    
Letters: Anderson, Naomi, 1934 November-1934 December
Box   1     Folder   9    
Letters: Anderson, Naomi, 1935 January-1935 May
Box   1     Folder   10    
Letters From Family, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   11    
Letters: Francis, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   12    
Letters: Gene, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   13    
Letters: Kawalle, Thelma, 1934 December-1935 April
Box   1     Folder   14    
Letters: Kefauver, Estes, 1936-1939
Box   1     Folder   15    
Letters: Nancy Kefauver-Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, 1938
Box   1     Folder   16    
Letters: Kefauver, Nancy (wife), undated
Box   1     Folder   17    
Letters: Kefauver, Nancy (wife), 1934
Box   1     Folder   18    
Letters: Kefauver, Nancy (wife), 1935 January-1935 March
Box   1     Folder   19    
Letters: Kefauver, Nancy (wife), 1935 April
Box   1     Folder   20    
Letters: Kefauver, Nancy (wife), 1935 May-1935 December
Box   1     Folder   21    
Letters: Kefauver, Nancy (wife), 1936 September-1938 November
Box   1     Folder   22    
Letters: Nora Kefauver, 1938
Box   1     Folder   23    
Letters: Mary K., 1934-1935
Box   1     Folder   24    
Letters: Miscellaneous, 1933-1934
Box   1     Folder   25    
Letters: Miscellaneous, 1935
Box   1     Folder   26    
Letters: Miscellaneous, 1936-1937
Box   1     Folder   27    
Letters: Newgren, Amy, 1934-1935
Box   1     Folder   28    
Letters: Piggot, Eleanor, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   29    
Letters: Reeves, Kathyrn, 1935-1938
Box   1     Folder   30    
Letters: Spillman, Leone, 1935-1936
Box   1     Folder   31    
Letters: Stoessler, Mary, 1938 September-1938 October
Box   1     Folder   32    
Miscellaneous, 1933-1939
Box   1     Folder   33    
Monroe County, State of Tennessee Receipt, 1933
Box   1     Folder   34    
Newsprint, undated
Box   1     Folder   35    
Photographs, 1934-1936
Box   1     Folder   36    
Postcards, 1934-1938
Box   1     Folder   37    
Receipts: Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, 1938 October-1938 November
Box   1     Folder   38    
Telegrams, 1934-1938