Is Al Gore destined to be the Adlai Stevenson of our age? Stevenson, who also came from a political family (his grandfather was Grover Cleveland's vice president), won the Democratic presidential ...

From the same giant platform, but before a slightly smaller crowd than had listened to Ike, Adlai Stevenson made a major bid for the farm vote at Newton. Gone were the Stevensonian subtleties, the ...

Some political figures thought television ads with catchy tunes didn't convey proper dignity for the electoral process. "This isn't Ivory soap versus Palmolive," complained Adlai Stevenson. He may ...

Illinois’ Governor Adlai Stevenson, considered one of the top Democratic presidential prospects if Harry Truman doesn’t run, last week spoke up on the subject. At a Democratic Jackson Day ...

Known as "the man from Libertyville," Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65) was an influential political figure in the United States and abroad. He served as governor of Illinois (1949-53), ran twice ...

Question: In the 1950s, a man from Bloomington-Normal — Democrat Adlai Stevenson II — ran for president twice, only to be defeated by Dwight Eisenhower twice. So, at least in McLean County ...

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Adlai Stevenson : [clears throat] There, uh, there is a third option. With either course we undertake the risk of nuclear war, so it seems to me that maybe one of us in this room should be a ...

FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) He possesses one of the most famous surnames in Illinois politics, but Warwick Stevenson's bid for a state House seat is based on old-fashioned, face-to-face campaigning, not ...

The great American diplomat and Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson may have well been talking about Li’l Abner creator Al Capp when he said, “Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger ...