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His eldest son, Adlai E. Stevenson III, served as U.S. Senator from Illinois (1970-1981)

Pictured on a 5¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in his honor, 23 October 1965.

His refusal to rule himself out of the running for a third nomination in 1960 permanently damaged his relationship with John F. Kennedy.

As a fresh face with few enemies in the national Democratic Party, he was nominated for President in 1952 and campaigned with an eloquence, wit, urbanity and grace that captivated many, including Hollywood luminaries as Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Mercedes McCambridge and Dore Schary. Although defeated by Dwight D.

Eisenhower in both 1952 and 1956, Stevenson remained in the public eye through speeches, books and articles as titular leader of the Democratic Party and keeper of the liberal flame during the Eisenhower years.

He returned to Illinois in 1947 with ambitions of running for the U. S. Senate the following year, but was instead chosen by leaders of the powerful Cook County Democratic machine as their candidate for governor. After a landslide victory over incumbent Gov. Dwight H. Green, Stevenson compiled a moderately progressive record in office while undergoing the private agony of the breakup of his 20-year marriage.

As principal attorney to the Secretary of the Navy he went on World War II survey missions to the Caribbean, South Pacific and Italy; in 1945 he served as adviser to the U. S. delegation to the opening session of the UN.

In 1940-41 he chaired the Chicago branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.

During the 1930s Stevenson became active in Illinois Democratic Party affairs and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and worked as a government lawyer during the early years of the New Deal.

After failing law courses at Harvard he graduated from Northwestern University Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1926.

Navy and graduated from Princeton University in 1922.

Grandson and namesake of Grover Cleveland's second Vice President, Adlai Ewing Stevenson was born in Los Angeles and raised in Bloomington, Illinois. Following a childhood marred by his accidental fatal shooting of an acquaintance in 1912, he attended the Choate School, served briefly as an apprentice seaman in the U. S.

He was the grandson of U.S. Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, who served under Grover Cleveland during his second from 1893 to 1897.