estes kefauver

Before the 1960 election, the frontrunner was Senator Estes Kefauver, who'd run twice before and been nominated for Vice-President. He had a knack turning the Senate into his own personal soapbox, with the unfortuate side-effect of pissing off everybody else in the room. He was a natural...

What if Senator Kefauver beat then-Vice President Warren in the 1956 Presidential Election? Will the Democrats move to dismantle the Dewey-era defense spending? What effect would the Kefauver administration have on the Civil Rights Act? For that matter, how would this change the political...

I've seen this question asked before, but never with with quite the answers I'm looking for. Lets say, for whatever reason- health concerns, accidental death, simply deciding not to- Eisenhower doesn't run for office. Instead, Estes Kefauver is elected and becomes president in 1956. What I...

What would happen if Estes Kefauver manages to win the Democratic nomination in 1956 instead of Adlai Stevenson again? Would he win the election or get absolutely steamrolled by Ike? What would the effects be on the Southern Democrats and their influence in the party and who would he pick as his...

Edit: Well, it's been more than five years since I started this as my first serious alternate history project. This actually germinated out of an idea to do a timeline focusing upon a Prime Minister Oswald Mosley leading a fascist Britain, but I never had the ambition to properly research it...