Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya jagoranci bincike mai yawa game da aikata laifuka a farkon shekarun 1950, sau biyu ya nemi takarar jam'iyyarsa don Shugaban Amurka. A shekarar 1956, taron kasa na jam'iyyar Democrat ya zabi shi
don zama mataimakin mataimakin shugaban kasa Adlai Stevenson. Har yanzu yana riƙe da kujerar Majalisar Dattijan Amurka bayan tikitin Stevenson-Kefauver ya rasa tikitin Eisenhower-Nixon. An zabi Kefauver a matsayin shugaban Kwamitin Majalisar Dattawa na Majalisar Dattijai da Kwamitin Gudanarwa a shekarar 1957 kuma ya zama shugabanta har mutuwarsa.