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Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the primaries, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats, who saw him as a party maverick who could not be trusted.
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Senator and Estes
The convention chose Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver over Massachusetts Senator ( and later president ) John F. Kennedy.
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Although challenged by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver and New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, Stevenson campaigned more aggressively to secure the nomination than he had in 1952, and Kefauver conceded after losing several key primaries.
Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ( the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ), a long-time advocate for addressing the disability question, spearheaded the effort until he died of a heart attack on August 10, 1963.
* Senator Estes Kefauver: Here is your May 22 issue.
Festivities on July 1, 1952, when the merger took effect, included a parade and speeches from such notables as Senator Estes Kefauver.
The hearings were called by a Special Committee of the United States Senate chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who had been appointed to investigate organized crime in Interstate Commerce.
Douglas, however, refused to be considered as a candidate for President, and instead backed the candidacy of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, a folksy, coonskin cap-wearing populist who had become famous for his televised investigations into organized crime.
In 1956, the Democrats did not renominate Sparkman for vice president, opting instead for U. S. Senator Estes Kefauver of neighboring Tennessee.
The younger Baker began his own political career in 1964, when he lost an election to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Estes Kefauver to the liberal Democrat Ross Bass.
In 1957, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee attempted unsuccessfully to pass a law restricting the importation and possession of switchblade knives.
After serving in the Korean War, he became legal counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, where he prosecuted many of the cases resulting from the organized crime investigations of Senator Estes Kefauver.
When United States Senator Estes Kefauver died in office in August 1963, Clement surprised some by not appointing himself to the office, but rather a caretaker, Herbert S. Walters.
The third member of the committee, Senator Estes Kefauver, displayed a lack of interest in the case, he attended only two of the first fifteen hearings.
* Estes Kefauver, former Representative, former U. S. Senator from Tennessee and 1956 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee
In 1951, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee concluded that DeSapio was feeding the interests of New York's most powerful mobster Frank Costello, and that Costello had become the lead person who influenced decisions made by the Tammany Hall council.
Bettie is called to testify before a 1955 hearing, headed by Senator Estes Kefauver, investigating the effects of pornography on American youth.
* David Strathairn as Senator Estes Kefauver
The Smith-Binaggio connection and its effect on Mob business nationwide even played a part in Senator Estes Kefauver's 1950 " Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce ", in particular the " Forrest Smith for Governor Club " This mafia influence greatly tainted the relationship between Smith and the national Democratic party.
He endorsed Senator Estes Kefauver for the Democratic nomination in the 1952 presidential election.
He was reelected four times and served until 1964, when Senator Estes Kefauver died in office.
Walters was appointed to the Senate on August 20, 1963 by Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement, upon the death of Senator Estes Kefauver.
The hearings of the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, brought to light the involvement of Florida public officials in gambling-related corruption involving numbers games and bolita, as well as accusations that Warren's 1948 campaign had been funded by organized criminals.
Senator and Kefauver
He permitted the convention delegates to choose Senator Kefauver as his running mate, despite stiff competition from Senator John F. Kennedy.
Senator and Tennessee
More splenetic was Senator Edward Carmack of Tennessee, a Parker man.
When Tennessee seceded from the Union in 1861, Johnson was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee and was dedicated to Jacksonian Democracy, nationalism and limited government.
His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.
When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.
During the 1992 election, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore, as well as the independent ticket of Texas businessman Ross Perot and retired Admiral James Stockdale.
In October 1823 Polk voted for Andrew Jackson to become the next United States Senator from Tennessee.
The United States presidential election of 1996 was a contest between the Democratic national ticket of President Bill Clinton from Arkansas and Vice President Al Gore from Tennessee and the Republican national ticket of former Senator Bob Dole of Kansas for President and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp from New York for Vice President.
On July 9, 1992, Clinton chose Tennessee Senator and former 1988 Presidential candidate Al Gore to be his running mate.
Image: Andrew_Jackson. jpg | Senator Andrew Jackson of Tennessee
Image: Andrew_Jackson. jpg | Senator Andrew Jackson of Tennessee
* Andrew Jackson ( Tennessee ), former Senator
* Andrew Johnson, Senator from Tennessee
On March 3, 1862, Lincoln installed a loyalist Democrat Senator Andrew Johnson, as Military Governor with the rank of Brigadier General in his home state of Tennessee.
* Avon Williams ( 1921 – 1993 ), Tennessee State Senator, 1972 – 1992
The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.
Route 80 is also known as " Helen Henderson Highway, In 1876, Grundy was chosen and became the county seat of Buchanan County, it was named in honor of Felix Grundy, a Senator from Tennessee.
Senator and won
In the 1970 presidential election, Senator Salvador Allende Gossens won a plurality of votes in a three-way contest.
Lynch defeated Republican challenger Joseph Kenney, a State Senator and U. S. Marine, 70 % to 28 %, with 2 % of the vote won by the Libertarian candidate.
Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.
Upon Clay's instruction, Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas ( Illinois ) then divided Clay's bill into several smaller pieces and narrowly won their passage over the opposition of those with stronger views on both sides.
McMahon therefore withdrew, and Senator John Gorton won the party room ballot for party leader and Prime Minister.
According to Robert Caro, " On November 5, 1960, Lyndon Johnson won election for both the vice presidency of the United States, on the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and for a third term as Senator ( he had Texas law changed to allow him to run for both offices ).
Johnson won the presidency by a landslide with 61 percent of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century — more than 15 million votes ( this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972 ).
He won the by-election for U. S. Senator from New York after the resignation of John Armstrong, Jr. and served from February 23, 1802, to November 4, 1803.
Asked for comment on De la Madrid's statements, Senator Manuel Bartlett, who was the president of the Federal Electoral Commission ( Comisión Federal Electoral ) during the de la Madrid administration, declared Salinas won the election albeit with the smallest margin of any PRI candidate before him.
Eastland was first appointed to the Senate in 1941 by Governor Paul B. Johnson, Sr., following the death of Senator Pat Harrison, but Eastland did not run in the special election for the seat later in the year ; it was won by 2nd District Congressman Wall Doxey.
Senator Barack Obama ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D-Illinois | IL ) won the popular vote in 28 states and the District of Columbia ( denoted in blue ) to capture 365 electoral votes.
Senator John McCain ( Republican Party ( United States ) | R-Arizona | AZ ) won the popular vote in 22 states ( denoted in red ) to capture 173 electoral votes.
Nebraska split its electoral vote when Senator Obama won the electoral vote from Nebraska's 2nd congressional district ; the state's other four electoral votes went to Senator McCain.
In December of that year, he won a five-man, eleven-ballot contest in the state legislature, that enabled him to become the Senator from Pennsylvania in order to complete the unexpired term of the previous senator who had resigned.
In 2006 Democrat Tim Seip won the heavily Republican 125th House district and Bob Casey Jr. carried Schuylkill when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum.
Former State Representative Dave Argall won the special election of March 3 to succeed the late State Senator Jim Rhoades and was sworn in on March 17.
In 2006 both Democrats Governor Ed Rendell and now Senator Bob Casey Jr. won 67. 5 % and 60. 6 % of the vote in Luzerne County, respectively.
In 2006, Democrat Governor Ed Rendell and Senator Bob Casey, Jr. won 59 % and 65 % of the vote in Fayette County.
In 2010, Republican Governor Tom Corbett and Senator Pat Toomey won 55 % and 50. 19 % of the vote.
Much later, in the 2008 presidential election, U. S. Senator John S. McCain won the county by nearly ten percentage votes over Senator Barack Obama, following President George W. Bush's victory over Senator John F. Kerry in 2004.
In the 2008 presidential contest, Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1, 646 ( 54. 1 percent ) to 1, 367 ( 45. 0 ) for the Republican nominee, Senator John S. McCain of Arizona.
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