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  2. Adlai Stevenson II - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 1892 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Adlai Stevenson III - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 1952 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Adlai Stevenson - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. 1956 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 1956 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection

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    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 ...

  9. 1952 United States presidential election in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Adlai Stevenson II, the Governor of Illinois, was not a declared candidate at the time of the primary, and was, in fact, on the same day, running for renomination as Governor of Illinois. [6] [7] He would only become a candidate after being drafted at the Democratic National Convention. Nonetheless, he placed second in the Illinois primary. [6] [7]