He withdrew his name from the balloting for the presidential nomination in the Democratic National Convention of 1956, and asked his 200 delegates to support Adlai E. Stevenson:
In the Democratic National Convention of 1956, Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver withdrew his name from the balloting and asked his 200 delegates to support Adlai E. Stevenson for the presidential nomination. Stevenson won the nomination on the first ballot with 905 votes to New York Governor Averell Harriman?s 200 votes. Kefauver then went on to narrowly defeat Senator John F. Kennedy for the party?s vice-presidential nomination.
