Adlai Ewing Stevenson III

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (born October 10, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American politician who represented the state of Illinois in the US Senate .

biography

Stevenson comes from a politically influential family. His great-grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson I was Vice President of the United States , his father of the same name Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was Governor of Illinois , multiple presidential candidate of the Democratic Party and UN ambassador to the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis .

Adlai Stevenson III attended elementary school in Illinois and the Milton Academy in Massachusetts . In 1952 he graduated from Harvard College ; five years later he also passed his Harvard law exam. During the Korean War he served as the commander of an armored train; he left the Marine Corps with the rank of first lieutenant . He then served in the reserves of the Marine Corps and was discharged as captain in 1961 . From 1957 to 1958 he was also an administrative officer at the Illinois Supreme Court. He also worked as a lawyer in Chicago from 1957.

Stevenson began his political career in 1965 when he was elected as a Democratic Party candidate to the Illinois House of Representatives. He was then from 1967 to 1970 State Treasurer in the State Government of Illinois during the tenure of Governors Otto Kerner and Samuel H. Shapiro .

In 1970 he was elected US Senator in a by-election to represent Illinois . He won against the Republican Ralph Tyler Smith , who had only succeeded the late Senator Everett Dirksen on September 7, 1969 . Stevenson was re-elected as a Senator in 1974 and chaired the Ethics Committee between 1977 and 1980 . In 1980, however, he renounced another candidacy, so that he resigned from Congress in 1981 .

In 1982 and 1986 he ran for the Democratic Party for governor. However, he was defeated in both elections to the Republican incumbent James R. Thompson .

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SURNAME Stevenson, Adlai Ewing III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stevenson, Adlai Ewing III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois