Kefauver
Americannoun
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“I’m no Luddite,” said Kefauver, a social-media consultant who lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., an hour outside of Silicon Valley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Kefauver lost, but his campaign was influential in starting the process of making primaries paramount in choosing presidents, leading journalist Theodore H. White to dub Kefauver "the godfather of the American presidential primary system."
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
Sen. Estes Kefauver challenged him in the New Hampshire primary that March and won—with 55 percent of the vote, over Truman’s 44.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2024
Truman announced on March 29, 1952, that he would not seek a second full term after losing in the New Hampshire primary to Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2023
The interim report of the Kefauver Committee strongly indicts crime and horror comics and gives some revolting illustrations of their contents.
From Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee by R. M. (Ronald Macmillan) Algie
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