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He taught mathematics and coached football at a Hot Springs, Arkansas, high school for a year before going on to Yale Law School, from which he earned an LL.B. cum laude in 1927. [3]
Oct 8, 2017 · U.S. Congressman and Senator Estes Kefauver was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1956. Kefauver was born in Madisonville and received his education at the University of Tennessee (1924) and Yale Law School (1927). He practiced law in Chattanooga (1927-39) and married Nancy Pigott, a native of Scotland, in 1935.
Estes Kefauver: A Featured Biography. Born in Tennessee in 1903, Carey Estes Kefauver first came to Capitol Hill in 1939 as a representative from Tennessee's Third Congressional District, then won a seat in 1948 to the United States Senate, where he served from 1949 until his untimely death in 1963. In the Senate, Kefauver quickly gained ...
Apr 18, 2012 · Born in 1903, Estes Kefauver studied at the University of Tennessee and at Yale University where he received his law degree in 1927. He returned to Tennessee to practice law, taking an...
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May 21, 2018 · His mother was Phredonia Bradford Estes and his father, a hardware merchant, was Robert Cooke Kefauver. Estes attended public schools in the area and graduated from high school in 1922. He then went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1924.
May 24, 2024 · Estes Kefauver, son of a hardware merchant, was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, and received a B.A. from the University of Tennessee in 1924 and a law degree from Yale University in 1927. He practiced law for twelve years and then, in 1939, entered into the political arena, successfully running for congressman from Tennessee's Third District.
Jan 15, 2024 · Board of Education, voting for the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 – Kefauver looks as proudly liberal as he did on civil liberties. Zoom in, though, and the picture gets murkier. Throughout his career he cast several votes, and made some statements, that aligned with his more segregationist colleagues.
