Adlai Stevenson III
 Adlai Stevenson III    (politician) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 10 October 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | 6 September 2021 (Age 90) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Harrow School, Milton Academy, Harvard Law School | |||||||||
| Parents | • Adlai Stevenson II • Ellen Borden | |||||||||
| Party | Democratic Party (United States) | |||||||||
Single Bilderberg son of Adlai Stevenson II. Mooted as President or Vice President in 1976.
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Not to be confused with his father, Adlai Stevenson II
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III was a US politician, and son of the United States ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson II.
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Background
Adlai Stevenson III came from a politically influential family. He was born in Chicago. His great-grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson I was vice president of the United States, his father of the same name Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was governor of Illinois, multiple presidential candidate of the Democratic Party and American ambassador to the UN during the Cuban Missile crisis.[1]
Education
He attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts, Harrow School in England, and Harvard College.[2] He received a law degree in 1957 from Harvard Law School.[3][4]
During the Korean War, he was commander of a tank platoon; he left the Marine Corps with the rank of first lieutenant. After that, he still was in the reserve of the Marine Corps and was discharged as a captain in 1961.
Career
He became an administrative law clerk to the Illinois Supreme Court from 1957 to 1958. He also worked as a lawyer in Chicago from 1957.[1]
Stevenson began his political career in 1965, when he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a candidate of the Democratic Party. He then was State Treasurer in the Illinois State Government from 1967 to 1970 during the terms of Governors Otto Kerner and Samuel H. Shapiro.[1]
In 1970, he was elected as a U.S. Senator representing Illinois in a by-election. He won against Republican Ralph Tyler Smith, who had only succeeded the late Senator Everett Dirksen on September 7, 1969. Stevenson was re-elected as a senator in 1974 and was chairman of the Ethics Committee between 1977 and 1980. However, he refrained from running for another term in 1980, so he resigned from Congress in 1981.[1]
In the Senate, Stevenson sat on the Commerce Committee (Chairman of the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space), Banking Committee (Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Finance) and Intelligence Committee (Chairman, Subcommittee on the Collection and Production of Intelligence). 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 which led the first major reorganization of the Senate since its Committee system was formed in the early 19th Century.[5]
Vietnam War
Stevenson opposed the Vietnam War. He condemned Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Indochina policies and the violent police tactics at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, renewed his attacks on Republican President Richard M. Nixon’s prosecution of the war.[6] He also introduced legislation requiring an end to all foreign aid to South Vietnam by June 30, 1975.[7]
Views on Israel
Stevenson was a strong supporter of Israel, but was critical of the influence of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on US politics. Stevenson had sharp differences with the Israeli lobby on issues concerning the Middle East, including a 1979 vote to cut military assistance to Israel by 10 percent and support of a 1978 weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. AIPAC also criticized his meeting with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
In a letter to Jewish leader Hyman Bookbinder in 1980, Stevenson wrote:
It is the Israeli lobby, led by AIPAC, which I deplore. It does not speak for all Jewry, including Israeli Jewry. Yet it exercises an inordinate degree of influence with weak public officials. I deplore their subservience to the vagaries of a foreign government.[8]
1976 Presidential election
Presidential bid
Stevenson was encouraged to run for president in 1976, which was fueled by Richard J. Daley of Chicago, who resented the senator’s liberal reforms, but who recognized Stevenson as being a vote-getter. The senator declined to campaign, but as the nominating process got underway, Daley forces ran him as a favorite son candidate.[9]
Vice presidential finalist
Despite this, former Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia locked up the nomination before the 1976 Democratic National Convention, in New York. Stevenson was, however, one of the finalists for vice president at the convention, though Carter eventually chose U.S. Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota.[10]
Later career
He ran for governor for the Democratic Party in 1982 and 1986. However, he lost to Republican incumbent James R. Thompson in both elections.[1]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1971 | 23 April 1971 | 25 April 1971 | US Vermont Woodstock Woodstock Inn | The 20th Bilderberg, 89 guests |
References
- ↑ a b c d e https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/9/7/22661586/adlai-stevenson-iii-former-senator-illinois-candidate-governor-dead-obitutary
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/22/archives/the-adlai-iii-brand-of-politics-the-adlai-iii-brand-of-politics.html
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1972/07/29/archives/mrs-ellen-istevenson-exwife-0-of-presldenhal-candzdate-dzes.htm
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/archives/2-famous-names-in-illinois-house-adlai-stevenson-3d-and-earl.html
- ↑ http://www.adlai3.com/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/us/politics/adlai-stevenson-3d-dead.html
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/howwegothere70sd00frum/page/306
- ↑ https://www.chicagotribune.com/1986/10/05/israeli-lobby-fighting-stevenson/
- ↑ https://videttearchive.ilstu.edu/?a=d&d=vid19751030-01.2.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
- ↑ "Sen. Adlai Stevenson III: Staking out his role in Illinois and Washington ", Illinois Issues.
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