Vice President under Grover Cleveland March 4, 1893 until March 3, 1897
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STEVENSON, Adlai Ewing, (great-grandfather
of Adlai Ewing Stevenson III), a Representative from Illinois and a Vice
President of the United States; born in Christian County, Ky., October 23, 1835;
moved with his parents to Bloomington, Ill., in 1852; attended Illinois Wesleyan
University at Bloomington and Centre College, Danville, Ky., studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Metamora, Woodford County,
Ill.; master in chancery 1860-1864; presidential elector on the Democratic
ticket in 1864; district attorney 1865-1868; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; First Assistant Postmaster General
1885-1889; elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket
headed by Grover Cleveland in 1892; was inaugurated March 4, 1893, and served
until March 3, 1897; was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President
of the United States in 1900 and for governor of Illinois in 1908; retired from
public and political activities and resided in Bloomington, Ill.; died in
Chicago, Ill., June 14, 1914; interment in Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington,
Ill.- -Biographical
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