United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce

The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States. The committee became popularly known as the Kefauver Committee because of its chairman, Senator Estes Kefauver. The televised hearing helped Kefauver became a household name, and he subsequently launched a failed bid for the Presidency in 1952. This rise culminated in him being the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 1956 US Presidential Election^[1] The term capo di tutti capi was introduced to the U.S. public by the Kefauver Commission.^[2]