Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver was a Democratic United States Senator from Tennessee who served from 1949 until his death in 1963. He is best known for chairing the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce from 1950 to 1951, which held televised hearings that introduced the American public to the extent of organized crime. He also chaired the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee and co-authored the Kefauver-Harris Drug Control Act of 1962, which imposed safety and efficacy requirements on the pharmaceutical industry.
“That very same week, the highly coveted open seat on the Foreign Relations Committee, which Kefauver was expecting to get, was instead handed over to a far more junior senator named John F. Kennedy.”
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