The Life and Public Career of Estes Kefauver - Brown Bag Lunch

@ The East Tennessee History Center
Where: 
East Tennessee History Center
When: 
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 7:00am to Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 7:45am

Dr. Theodore Brown, Jr., will discuss the life and public career of late Senator Estes Kefauver.  A native of Madisonville, Tennessee, Carey Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) rose to become one of the most influential senators of his time and was the 1956 Democratic candidate for vice president, along with Adlai Stephenson for president.  At the state level, he led a successful revolt in 1948 against the Crump political machine, and in 1950 rose to national prominence as the chair of a U.S. Senate crime investigation committee.

Brown will also discuss Kefauver’s stands on then-controversial issues such as his vote against the politically popular Communist Control Act of 1954 and his support for the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. 

Dr. Theodore Brown, Jr. is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and an adjunct professor of Law in the College of Law, University of Tennessee.  He has written several articles about Senator Kefauver, the law, and Tennessee legal and political history, and contributed to several works, including the book, A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and is coeditor, along with Professor James W. Ely, Jr., of Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson (University of Tennessee Press, 1987).  Brown’s interest in Estes Kefauver developed from his time as an undergraduate student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he organized and catalogued Senator Kefauver’s papers.

The program is sponsored by 21st Mortgage and is free and open to the public.  Guests are invited to bring a “Brown Bag” lunch and enjoy the lecture.  Soft drinks will be available for purchase.  For more information on the lecture, exhibitions, or museum hours, call 865-215-8824.

Senator Kefauver
Sponsors: 
21st Mortgage Corporation