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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.
The 1956 Democratic National Convention nominated former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois for president and Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for vice president. It was held in the International Amphitheatre on the South Side of Chicago from August 13 to August 17, 1956.
Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy [ edit ] Adlai Stevenson recruited Attwood to serve as a speechwriter and advisor for his 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns, and to write other speeches in 1960. [ 1 ]
Stevenson gradually gained strength until he was nominated on the third ballot. The convention then chose Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, a conservative and segregationist, as Stevenson's running mate. The Supreme Court would not decide Brown v. Board of Education for approximately another two years. Stevenson then delivered an eloquent ...
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was the 23rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland. A member of the Democratic Party , Stevenson served as a U.S. Representative for Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Stevenson has built her political brand on defending public education, in particular against what she sees as the harmful effects of Constitutional Amendment 2, a ballot question that if approved ...
Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois ‹ 1888 · 1896 › The 1892 Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago , Illinois, from June 21 to 23, 1892. and nominated former President Grover Cleveland , who had been the party's standard-bearer in 1884 and 1888.
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