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Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson may refer to: * Adlai Stevenson I (1835–1914), U.S. Vice President (1893–1897) and Congressman (1879–1881) * Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965), Governor of Illinois (1949–1953), U.S. presidential candidate (1952, 1956, 1960), U.N. Ambassador (1961–1965), grandson of Adlai Stevenson * Adlai Stevenson III (1930–2021) U.S. Senator (1970–1981), candidate for Illinois governor (1982, 1986), son of Adlai Stevenson II * Adlai Stevenson IV (born 1956), business executive and journalist, son of Adlai Stevenson III See also * Adlai Stevenson House (other) * Adlai E. Stevenson High School (other) Adlai E. Stevenson High School can refer to: *Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois) *Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Livonia, Michigan) *Adlai E. Stevenson High School (New York City) *Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Sterling Heigh ... * Stevenson College (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai Stevenson I
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was an American politician who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897. He had served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his appointment as assistant United States Postmaster General, postmaster general of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–1889), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he was elected vice president of the United States. In office, he supported the free silver, free-silver lobby against the gold standard, gold-standard men like Cleveland, but was praised for governing in a dignified, non-partisan manner. In 1900, he ran for vice president with William Jennings Bryan. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai Stevenson II
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat who was twice the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. He was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson I, the 23rd vice president of the United States. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a member of the initial U.S. delegations to the UN. In 1948, he was elected governor of Illinois, defeating incumbent governor Dwight H. Green in an upset. As governor, he reformed the state police, cracked down on illegal gambling, improved the state highways, and attempted to cleanse the state government of corruption. Stevenson also sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai Stevenson III
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (October 10, 1930 – September 6, 2021) was an American attorney and politician of the Democratic Party who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981. A member of the prominent Stevenson family, he also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Treasurer. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of Illinois in 1982 and 1986. He had been awarded Japan’s Order of the Sacred Treasure with gold and silver stars and was an honorary Professor of Renmin University, China. Early life, education, and early career (1930–1964) Adlai Stevenson III was born in Chicago, the son of Ellen Borden and two time Democratic Party presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II. He attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts, Harrow School in England, and Harvard College. He received a law degree in 1957 from Harvard Law School. Stevenson was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1952, served in Korea and was di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai Stevenson IV
Adlai Ewing Stevenson IV (born November 4, 1956) is an American business executive and a former television and print journalist. Early life and education Stevenson was born on November 4, 1956, the son of Senator Adlai Stevenson III, grandson of UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson II who was defeated in the 1952 and 1956 United States presidential elections and the great-great-grandson of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I. Stevenson attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor's degree in communications in 1978, then an MBA,. Accessed 2018-04-09. both from Northwestern University. Career Stevenson was a print reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago, and then a television reporter at WTNH, New Haven; WMBD, Peoria; KARE, Minneapolis; and WMAQ, Chicago. In 1990, he founded radio station WHZT-FM (now WGKC) in Champaign, Illinois. Between 1994 and 2006, Stevenson worked as an acquisition specialist for media companies Lee Enterprises and Schurz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai Stevenson House (other)
The Adlai Stevenson House or Adlai E. Stevenson House may refer to: * Adlai E. Stevenson I House, Metamora, Woodford County, Illinois — where Adlai Stevenson I lived from 1866 * Dodson-Stevenson House, also known as the Adlai Stevenson I House, on North McLean Street on Franklin Square (Bloomington, Illinois), McLean County, Illinois — an 1869 house where Adlai Stevenson I lived * Birthplace of Adlai E. Stevenson II, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California — where the presidential candidate was born in 1900 * Stevenson House (Bloomington, Illinois) The Stevenson House, located at 1316 E. Washington St. in Bloomington, Illinois, was the boyhood home of Illinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson II. Architect Arthur Pillsbury designed the house in 1900 for ..., also known as the Adlai E. Stevenson II House, on East Washington Street in Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois — where Adlai Stevenson II lived from 1906 * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlai E
Adlai may refer to: * Adlai (biblical figure), the father of Shaphat, and the grandfather of the prophet Elisha * Adlai, West Virginia, unincorporated community, United States * The first name of Adlai Stevenson I, Grover Cleveland's Vice President * The first name of Adlai E. Stevenson II, grandson of the above entry, former Governor of Illinois, and unsuccessful Presidential candidate * The first name of Adlai E. Stevenson III, son of the above entry, and former Senator from Illinois * The first name of Adlai E. Stevenson IV, son of the above entry, business executive and former journalist * The colloquial name of an annual collegiate debating competition held by Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society as part of the American Parliamentary Debate Association * Job's tears Job's tears (''Coix lacryma-jobi)'', also known as Adlay or Adlay millet, is a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae (grass family). It is native to Southeast Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevenson College (University Of California, Santa Cruz)
Adlai E. Stevenson College, known colloquially as Stevenson College, is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently, the college is host to the Linguistics Department, as well as many humanities faculty. The college was named after Adlai Stevenson, an politician and ambassador. The college was founded in 1966, a year after the establishment of the university and its first college, Cowell. Core course The core course at Stevenson College is Self & Society. It i ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
