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Adlai E. Stevenson I

Adlai Stevenson I
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23rd Vice President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
President Grover Cleveland
Preceded by Levi P. Morton
Succeeded by Garret Hobart
First Assistant United States Postmaster General
In office
August 1, 1885 – March 4, 1889
President Grover Cleveland
Preceded by Malcolm Hay
Succeeded by James S. Clarkson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Illinois's 13th district
In office
March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877
Preceded by John McNulta
Succeeded by Thomas F. Tipton
In office
March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1881
Preceded by Thomas F. Tipton
Succeeded by Dietrich C. Smith
Personal details
Born Adlai Ewing Stevenson
(1835-10-23)October 23, 1835
Christian County, Kentucky
Died June 14, 1914(1914-06-14) (aged 78)
Chicago, Illinois
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Letitia Green Stevenson
Children 4
Alma mater
Religion Presbyterian
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (/ˈædˌl ˈjɪŋ/; October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) served as the 23rd Vice President of the United States (1893–97). Previously, he served as a Congressman from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his subsequent appointment as Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration (1885–89), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he duly became Vice President of the United States.

In office, he supported the free-silver lobby against the gold-standard men like Cleveland, but was praised for ruling in a dignified, non-partisan manner.

In 1900, he ran for Vice President with William Jennings Bryan. In doing so, he became the third Vice President to run for that post with two different presidential candidates (after George Clinton and John C. Calhoun). Stevenson was the grandfather of Adlai Stevenson II, a Governor of Illinois and the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate in both 1952 and 1956.


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