(1903 – 1963) Crusading Tennessee Democratic senator and unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate (with Adlai Stevenson) in 1956. In the Senate, Kefauver conducted important investigations on many social issues, including his 1951 televised attacks on organized crime that brought government to a mass audience and won him an Emmy Later, the generally liberal Kefauver showed equal zeal in pursuing relations between mass media (television, radio, comics) and juvenile violence, antitrust violations and pharmaceuticals. His presidential aspirations were overshadowed by images of the South in national politics, but his popularity and integrity paved the way for later southern presidents.