by Ray Hill | Mar 30, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s Senator Estes Kefauver had once again bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1956. Unlike 1952, Kefauver had encountered stiff competition from various other candidates. Former Illinois governor and 1952 Democratic presidential...
by Ray Hill | Mar 23, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Senator Estes Kefauver had demolished his opposition inside the 1954 Democratic primary and he had been reelected to a second term that fall easily. Almost immediately following his reelection, Senator Kefauver began considering another run for the...
by Ray Hill | Mar 16, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Senator Estes Kefauver had made a spirited bid for the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination, only to lose to a candidate who had never entered the first primary and remained coy until the last minute. Kefauver was profoundly disappointed but that did...
by Ray Hill | Mar 9, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Tennessee’s Estes Kefauver had won more primaries and votes than any other contender for the 1952 Democratic presidential nomination, yet he journeyed to Chicago uncertain of the outcome. One thing was certainly clear: he was bitterly opposed by President...
by Ray Hill | Mar 2, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill The publicity generated by the Kefauver Committee investigating crime had elevated Tennessee’s Senator Estes Kefauver into the limelight. It was one of the first Congressional hearings to be broadcast live over television and some twenty or...
by Ray Hill | Feb 23, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives
By Ray Hill Aside from the dislike he endured from his senior colleague, K. D. McKellar, Estes Kefauver’s first few years in the United States Senate were reasonably pleasant. Kefauver, like McKellar, tended to constituent service and attending committee...
