Adlai E. Stevenson, III
| Adlai Stevenson III | |
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United States Senator from Illinois |
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In office November 17, 1970 – January 3, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Ralph Tyler Smith |
| Succeeded by | Alan J. Dixon |
| 63rd Treasurer of Illinois | |
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In office January 9, 1967 – November 17, 1970 |
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| Governor |
Otto Kerner Jr. Samuel H. Shapiro Richard B. Ogilvie |
| Preceded by | William J. Scott |
| Succeeded by | Charles W. Woodford |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson III October 10, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Marine Corps
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| Years of service | 1952–1954 (active) 1954–1961 (reserve) |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Korean War |
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (born October 10, 1930) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981.
Adlai Stevenson III was born in Chicago. He attended the Milton Academy in Massachusetts, Harrow School in England, and Harvard College.
He received a law degree in 1957 from Harvard Law School.
Stevenson was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1952, served in Korea and was discharged from active duty in 1954. He continued to serve in the Marine Reserves and was discharged in 1961 as a captain.
In 1957, Stevenson went to work as a clerk for a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and worked there until 1958 when he joined the law firm of Brown and Platt.
In 1964, Stevenson was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as an at-large representative due to reapportionment problems, serving from 1965 to 1967. He then served as Illinois Treasurer (1967–1970).
After U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) died in office in 1969 and Ralph Tyler Smith was appointed to the seat, Stevenson defeated Smith in a 1970 special election by a 58% to 42% margin to fill Dirksen's unexpired term. Stevenson introduced legislation requiring an end to all foreign aid to South Vietnam by June 30, 1975. He authored the International Banking Act, the Stevenson Wydler-Technology Innovation Act and its companion, the Bayh Dole Act, to foster cooperative research, organize national laboratories for technology utilization and commercialization, permit private sector interests in government-funded research. He was the first Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee charged with implementing a code of ethics he helped draft. Stevenson was also chairman of a Special Senate Committee that reorganized the Senate and served on the Democratic Policy Committee. Inter alia, he also conducted the first in-depth congressional study of terrorism as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Collection and Production of Intelligence, leading to introduction of the Comprehensive Counter Terrorism Act of 1971 with warnings of "spectacular acts of disruption and destruction" and an amendment that proposed reducing assistance for Israel by $200 million until the president could certify that settlements polices of the newly elected Likud Government of Israel were consistent with U.S. policy. His amendment received seven votes.
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