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Stevenson had a problem connecting with voters in the 1952 campaign, viewed as a wealthy egghead up against war hero Dwight Eisenhower. The Democrat appeared in Flint on Labor Day, sharing a stage ...
Adlai’s Democratic paternal grandfather and namesake was Vice President in Grover Cleveland’s second Administration, and the old campaign posters still decorate Adlai’s den in Libertyville.
Adlai Stevenson suffered another setback in his campaign for governor Friday when Senior U.S. District Judge James Parsons dismissed his suit seeking to run as an independent candidate.Parsons ...
As Stevenson's biographer John Bartlow Martin later observed, Stevenson's 1952 campaign became a legendary liberal crusade in a decade when their cause was broadly in retreat.
Lawrence N. Hansen, a longtime associate of Adlai Stevenson, says he is stepping down as campaign manager of Stevenson`s gubernatorial campaign for personal reasons.Hansen, who lives in a Virginia ...
Robert Mann explains the meaning of the 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign ads.
BLOOMINGTON — It's fair to say that not everyone who lives in the Twin Cities knows about Adlai Stevenson II. But his name, reflecting his memory and legacy 50 years ...
Democrat Adlai Stevenson was governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953. He was in Harrisburg several times in the 1950s to campaign. Stevenson ran for president against Republican Dwight D ...