Adlai stevenson political views
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About
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Illinois’ thirty-third governor, was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 5, 1900. He graduated from Princeton University in 1922, earned a law degree from Northwestern University in 1926, and established a legal career in Chicago, Illinois. Stevenson entered public service in 1933, serving as special counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, a position he held one year. He served as assistant general counsel for the Federal Alcohol Control Administration in 1934, was special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy from 1941 to 1944, and joined the Italian Section of the Foreign Economic Mission in 1944. He also was the press spokesman for the American delegation to the 1945 United Nation Conference on International Organization and was the senior advisor to the American delegation to the first United Nations General Assembly in 1946. Stevenson won the 1948 Democratic gubernatorial nomination and was sworn into the governor’s office on January 10, 1949. During his tenure, the state gasoline tax was augmented and used to ad
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Adlai E. Stevenson II
“Shall we see his like again?” Walter Lippmann asked amid the outpouring of grief and national introspection that followed the July 14, 1965, death of Adlai Stevenson. The United Nation’s ambassador collapsed while walking along a London street following meetings with British officials, to which he had flown after addressing the United Nations Economic and Social Council in Geneva.
A brief summary of the life of Adlai Stevenson is possible only by ignoring a great portion of his many contributions to America and the world. He was governor of Illinois from 1949-53; he was nominated twice for the Presidency, in 1952 and 1956, and he was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961-65. But his legacy was varied, and much of it fell within three broad themes:
- Helping the Midwest in the 1930s to burst from its isolationism.
- Promoting public service as the highest calling of citizenship.
- Challenging Americans and all peoples to step back from the nuclear precipice and unite around their common humanity.
Although born in California in 1900, his parents--L
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Adlai Stevenson I
Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
Adlai Stevenson | |
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Stevenson in 1892 | |
| In office March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 | |
| President | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | Levi P. Morton |
| Succeeded by | Garret Hobart |
| In office August 1, 1885 – March 4, 1889 | |
| President | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Hay |
| Succeeded by | James S. Clarkson |
| In office March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas F. Tipton |
| Succeeded by | Dietrich C. Smith |
| In office March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 | |
| Preceded by | John McNulta |
| Succeeded by | Thomas F. Tipton |
| In office 1859–1869 | |
| Preceded by | Major W. Packard |
| Succeeded by | Martin L. Newell |
| Born | Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-10-23)October 23, 1835 Christian County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, 1914(1914-06-14) (aged 78) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Letitia Green (m. 1866; died 1913) |
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