Finding Aid for the Estes Kefauver Collection, 1952-1970
MS-2035University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, September 7, 2006.
Summary Information
Estes Kefauver Collection
Date/Date Range : 1952-1970
2.0 linear feet
Abstract: This collection contains tapes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence documenting Estes Kefauver's political career between 1952 and 1963.
MS-2035
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Access and Use
The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in 2001.
Collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
[Identification of Item], Estes Kefauver Collection, MS-2035. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.
Arrangement
Collection consists of two boxes.
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 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.
Collection Scope and Content Note
This collection contains tapes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence documenting Estes Kefauver's political career between 1952 and 1963.
Subject Terms
- Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
Contents List
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Folder
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Letters, 1955
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1
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Folder
2
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Letters, 1956 January-1956 July
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1
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Folder
3
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Letters, 1956 August-1956 November
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1
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Folder
4
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Letters, 1957
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1
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Folder
5
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Lists: Contributors, 1956-1960
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1
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Folder
6
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Lists: More Reception Money, undated
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1
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Folder
7
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Memorandums, undated
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1
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Folder
8
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Miscellaneous, undated
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1
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Folder
9
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Newspaper Clippings, undated
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1
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Folder
10
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Copies of Newspaper Clippings, undated
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1
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Folder
11
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Copies of Receipts, 1956 July 16
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1
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Folder
12
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Telegrams, 1956
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1
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Folder
13
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Tapes: Kefauver with L. B. Johnson, 1960
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1
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Folder
14
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Tapes: Acceptance Speech: Adalai Stevenso, 1956
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1
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Folder
15
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Tapes: Interview: Edmund Orgill, undated
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1
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Folder
16
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Tapes: Interviews: Lucius Burch, Fred Bailey, and Robert Tillman, 1970
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1
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Folder
17
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Tapes: Interview: Robert Tillman (1970) and Kefauver Speech in Fresno, CA (1956), 1956, 1970
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| Box
2
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Folder
1
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Tapes: Today Show Interview, "Come On Washington, Register and Vote," and excerpts from Kefauver's Fresno Speech, 1956
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2
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Folder
2
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Tapes: Kefauver at Princeton University, 1956 April 6
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2
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Folder
3
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Tapes: Interview of Foreign Trade, Jacksonville Forum, undated
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2
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Folder
4
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Tapes: Telephone Conversations Night of MN Primary (1956), Report on MA Pole 1956, and Democratic National Convention, 1956
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2
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Folder
5
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Tapes: Interview-Farm Bill Taft Hartley Act, Laws Foreign Aid Etc., undated
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2
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Folder
6
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Tapes: Interview-1948 Campaign, Weekly Broadcast-Charles Caldwell, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963), 1948-1963
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2
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Folder
7
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Tapes: Democratic Convention (1956), Address by Harry Truman, and Acceptance Speech by Sen. Kefauver, Vice President Nominee, 1956
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2
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Folder
8
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Tapes: "On The Scene" Radio Broadcasts, 1958
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2
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Folder
9
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Tapes: Interviews: JA McDaniel and Wilbur Curtis, undated
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2
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Folder
10
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Tapes: Campaign for Re-election (1960), Kefauver on "Viewpoint" , and NATO Conference (1961), 1960-1961
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2
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Folder
11
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Tapes: Acceptance Speech, 1956
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2
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Folder
12
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Tapes: Speech (1958), "Crossfire" Kefauver with ABC Newsman (1952), Today Show (1956), and Campaign Song "We Favor Kefauver" (1956), 1952-1958
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2
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Folder
13
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Tapes: Speech by Honorable Paul M Butley, undated
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