Title: Estes Kefauver Federal Finance Letter

Date/Date Range :   1963 February 6

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.

Call number: MS-2364

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

Aquisition Information:

The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in September of 2003.

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 Federal Finance Letter, MS-2364. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

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.

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.

• Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
• United States. Congress. Senate.