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Sheriffs' deputies asked the firemen to turn their hoses on the rioters, who refused to do so without their lieutenant, who was unavailable. The situation appeared to be out of control and County Sheriff John E. Babbs asked Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson to send in the Illinois National Guard. As troops arrived at the scene, the rioters ...
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.
The 1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the United States presidential election of 1952.The Democratic Party candidate, Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, won the state of Mississippi over Dwight D. Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and General of the Army by a margin of 59,600 votes, or 20.88 percentage points.
After winning the presidential nomination, Adlai Stevenson II announced that he would allow the convention delegates to choose his running mate and did not support any candidate. [9] Governor W. Averell Harriman , who had received the second highest amount of delegates on the presidential ballot, also announced that he was not interested in the ...
Stevenson circa 1953. This is the electoral history of Adlai Stevenson II, who served as Governor of Illinois (1949–1953) and 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1961–1965), and was twice the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States, losing both the 1952 and 1956 presidential general elections to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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.
Eisenhower carried New York with 55.45% of the vote to Stevenson's 43.55%, a victory margin of 11.90%. New York weighed in for this election as 1% more Republican than the national average. [ 3 ] Eisenhower proved to be very popular in many of the Northern and Mid-West States, and took nearly every county in the State of New York, with the ...
It was thought that he would be a hindrance both to Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II, and to Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower. [7] Stevenson would call for McCarthy's defeat during his campaign in the state because he thought Eisenhower was using unfair political tactics, [ 8 ] that Eisenhower was a "scaremonger", [ 9 ] and that the ...