Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, were re-ele
Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop
Adlai Stevenson close up
Montana Secretary of State S. C. Arnold from Montana (1955–1957)
Estes Kefauver
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Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 unti
1956 United States presidential election
…Richard Nixon, were re-elected to a second term in a landslide victory, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, former Illinois governor and Senator Estes Kefauver, in a rematch of 1952. Eisenhower, who first became famous for his military leadership in World War II, remained widely popular. A heart attack in 1955…
Kefauver in 1951
After signing the 1962 Drug Control Act into law, President John F. Kennedy presents the pen to Senator Kefauver