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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (/ ˈ æ d l eɪ /; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
“True patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility.” — Adlai Stevenson II. This article was originally published on TODAY.com. Show comments.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (October 10, 1930 – September 6, 2021) was an American attorney and politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party , he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1970 to 1981.
Stevenson and Sparkman lost the election to Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon on November 4, 1952. Despite the defeat, Stevenson was four years later again selected as the Democratic presidential nominee at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, with Kefauver as his running mate.
CHICAGO — Former U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, the fourth generation of an iconic Illinois Democratic political family to hold public office and who lost the closest governor’s race in ...
From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election.Former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections [1] and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Democratic National Convention held from August 13 to August 17, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois. [2]
This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1952 election.After winning the presidential nomination on the third ballot of the 1952 Democratic National Convention, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson consulted with Democratic Party leaders such as President Harry S. Truman and Speaker Sam Rayburn. [1]
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III, who was first elected in a special election in 1970, was re-elected to a full term in office, ...