| Question 1: After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, he twice sought his Party's nomination for ________. | |||
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| Question 2: After a devastating loss in the ________ primary, Kefauver suspended his campaign. | |||
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| Question 3: Campaigning in his coonskin cap, often by dogsled, Kefauver made history when, in an electrifying victory in the New Hampshire primary, he defeated President ________, the sitting President of the United States. | |||
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| Question 4: During the primary, Crump and his allies accused Kefauver of being a "fellow traveler" and of working for the "pinkos and communists" with the stealth of a ________. | |||
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| Question 5: He would go on to lose the general election to General ________ in a landslide. | |||
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| Question 6: A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the ________ from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963. | |||
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| Question 7: In particular, he backed the controversial Tennessee Valley Authority and was best known for his successful bid to rebuff the efforts of Tennessee Senator ________ to gain political control over the agency. | |||
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| Question 8: Among them were former Governor Harold G. Hoffman of ________ and Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City. | |||
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| Question 9: Aroused by his role as attorney for the Chattanooga News, Kefauver became interested in local politics and sought election to the ________ in 1938. | |||
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| Question 10: Carey Estes Kefauver (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963; pronounced /ˈɛstɨs ˈkiːfɔːvər/[1]) was an American politician from ________. | |||
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