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 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 fami ...

, grandson of UN Ambassador

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 ...

who was defeated in the

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and

1956 United States presidential election The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran for reelection against Adlai Stevenson II, the former Illinois ...

s and the great-great-grandson of Vice President

Adlai E. 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 U.S. Representative from Illinois in the late 1870s and e ...

. Stevenson attended

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in Concord, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor's degree in communications in 1978, then an

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,. Accessed 2018-04-09. both from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

Career

Stevenson was a print reporter at the

City News Bureau of Chicago City News Bureau of Chicago (CNB), or City Press (1890-2005), was a news bureau that served as one of the first cooperative news agencies in the United States. It was founded in 1890 by the newspapers of Chicago to provide a common source of local ...

, and then a television reporter at

WTNH WTNH (channel 8) is a television station licensed to New Haven, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WCTX (channel 59), al ...

, New Haven; WMBD, Peoria;

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, Minneapolis; and WMAQ, Chicago. In 1990, he founded radio station WHZT-FM (now

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) in

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. Between 1994 and 2006, Stevenson worked as an acquisition specialist for media companies

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and

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, and served as vice president and chief operations officer at the Evanston-based start-up Stonewater Control Systems. Stevenson was a Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions at HuaMei Capital, the first U.S.-Chinese

financial services Financial services are the Service (economics), economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, acco ...

joint venture, beginning in 2006. In 2012, he began work as a financial services professional at Water Tower Financial Partners, LLC, in Chicago.

Personal life

Stevenson's son, Adlai Ewing Stevenson V, was born in 1994. Stevenson was ambivalent about passing on his name, having joked that he would be "Adlai the Last". He later recounted that " en my own kid was about to be born...the big debate began—were we going to continue this name thing? I was basically against it, needless to say fully aware of how being named Adlai Stevenson can be a Boy-Named-Sue-like

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. But my dad and my wife felt strongly this was something we should do."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Adlai 4 1956 births Living people American television journalists Writers from Bloomington, Illinois Businesspeople from Los Angeles Stevenson family American male journalists