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Estes Kefauver
Born: 1903
Filed from: Tennessee
NH Primaries
1952
1956
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Votes
(D) 19,800
(D) 21,701
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Platform: Anti-crime & Pro-civil rights
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This senator known for wearing a coonskin cap challenged President Truman in the NH primary. The political "pros" didn't give him an outside chance. A popular one-on-one handshaker, he sometimes campaigned by dog sled. He won, and Truman didn't run elsewhere.
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