May 25—With less than a month to go in the 1952 presidential election, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, landed his chartered plane in Spokane for a stump ...

With less than a month to go in the 1952 presidential election, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, landed his chartered plane in Spokane for a stump speech Oct. 15 ...

In 1962, during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Soviet-built missile ...

Adlai Stevenson II accepts the praise of an audience with his running mate, Estes Kefauver, right, during his 1956 presidential campaign. Stevenson, of Bloomington, died 50 years ago this month.

Adlai E. Stevenson II’s 112th Birthday By The Adlai Stevenson Center On Democracy Feb 5, 2012, 7:57pm PST Listen ...

His parents divorced in 1974, and he and his sister Kim were raised by their father Fred in a Jewish household. He graduated from Adlai Stevenson High School and briefly attended Illinois State ...

In spite of the fact that he knew about an incident just two weeks earlier that had taken place in Dallas — when Adlai Stevenson, then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, had been hit on the ...

Stevenson was the governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1952, ran for president in 1952 and 1956, and was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an institution he helped establish, from 1961 until ...

The candidate I'm talking about is Adlai Stevenson, a leading American liberal of the mid-20th century who had served in various government positions under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 1982, file photo, Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III, left, talks with Sen. Edward Kennedy, right, talk as they finish a series of appearances ...

Stevenson ran for governor of Illinois twice, losing his 1982 run by just 5,074 votes to Republican Gov. Jim Thompson. It is the closest Illinois election for governor in modern state history.

CHICAGO (AP) – Former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois has died at his home on Chicago's North Side. He was 90. His son Adlai Stevenson IV, who confirmed the Illinois Democrat died on ...