Background
Kefauver, Estes was born on July 26, 1903 in Madisonville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Robert Cooke and Phredonia (Estes) Kefauver.
Kefauver, Estes was born on July 26, 1903 in Madisonville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Robert Cooke and Phredonia (Estes) Kefauver.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Tennessee, 1924. Bachelor of Laws, Yale, 1927.
Admitted to Tennessee bar, 1926. Member Kefauver, Duggan & Miller, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Commissioner of finance and taxation, State of Tennessee, January-May 1939.
Member 76th to 80th Congresses (1939-1949), 3d Tennessee District.
Member Committee on The Judiciary. United States senator Tennessee for term ending 1967.
Member Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman sub-commission on antitrust and monopoly, member commission on appropriations. Received “Most outstanding young citizen” award from Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1937.
Member American Political Science Association (vice president), American, Tennessee State and Chattanooga bar associations, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi.
Married Nancy Paterson Pigott, August 8, 1935. Children: Eleanor, David, Diane, Gail.