Title: Estes Kefauver Campaign Handouts

Date/Date Range :   1956

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of three political handouts concerning the 1956 presidential race between Adlai Stevenson (whose running mate was Estes Kefauver) and Dwight Eisenhower. These items include an anti-Kefauver booklet explaining why Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon will do better in the White House as well as a booklet of pro-Kefauver songs.

Call number: MS-2927

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

Aquisition Information:

The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library purchased this collection on September 25, 2006.

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 Campaign Handouts, MS-2927. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

This collection consists of a single folder

Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the continued concentration of U.S. economic and political power in fewer and fewer hands. Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 until his death in 1963. After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, he twice sought his Party's nomination for President of the United States. In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. Still holding his U.S. Senate seat after the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket in 1956, Kefauver was named chair of the U.S. Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee in 1957 and served as its chairperson until his death.

This collection consists of three political handouts concerning the 1956 presidential race between Adlai Stevenson (whose running mate was Estes Kefauver) and Dwight Eisenhower. These items include an anti-Kefauver booklet explaining why Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon will do better in the White House and a booklet of pro-Kefauver songs.

For further information on Estes Kefauver, please see UTK-MS-0837: Estes Kefauver Papers, 1935-1967; UTK-MS-2035: Estes Kefauver Collection, 1952-1970; UTK-MS-2337: Estes Kefauver Papers, 1943-1964; UTK-MS-2364: Estes Kefauver Federal Finance Letter, 1963 February 6; UTK-MS-2365: Estes Kefauver Milk Industry Letter, 1960 January 12; and UTK-MS-2498: Kefauver Family Papers, 1876-1922.

• Elections -- United States.
• Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Political campaigns -- United States.
• Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1956.
• Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.