biography
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Kefauver, (Carey) Estes
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| lived:
| (1903–63)
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Monroe Co, Tennessee, USA. Elected to the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Tennessee, 1939–49), he sponsored the so-called GI Bill, which gave various benefits to veterans of World War 2. Elected to the US Senate (1949–63), he was an internationalist and civil-rights advocate, and won national fame as head of the Kefauver Committee, which investigated organized crime. His presidential ambitions were frustrated in the 1950s. |
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