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Vintage July 15, 1965 edition of the Illinois State Journal reporting the death of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson under the headline:

Attack Fells U.N. Ambassador In London

STEVENSON SERVICES HERE

The popular reform governor of Illinois, Stevenson (1900-1965) a Democrat raised in Bloomington, Illinois, wanted to run for re-election, but the Democratic Party had other ideas – he was nominated to run for president against Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The grandson on Adlai Stevenson I, U.S. vice president from 1893 to 1897, Stevenson served in several federal government positions in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations and was a member of the first U.S. delegation to the U.N.

He won the race for Illinois governor in 1948 in an upset over incumbent Dwight Green. He reformed the state police, cracked down on illegal gambling and had limited success in modernizing the state’s 1870 Constitution.

He accepted his party’s nomination for president at Chicago in 1952, Eisenhower trounced him that year and in their 1956 rematch. Once, when asked for advice on pursuing politics as a career, Stevenson dead-panned, “Don’t run against a war hero.”

In 1960, Stevenson thought he should have a third shot, but the party looked elsewhere. After John F. Kennedy was elected, he appointed Stevenson ambassador to the United Nations. While in his two campaigns for president, Eisenhower painted him as an “egghead” intellectual who couldn’t stand up to foreign aggression, Stevenson burnished his reputation by standing up to the Soviets during the Cuban Missile crisis.

His son was Adlai Stevenson III, U.S. senator from Illinois from 1970 to 1982.

Paper measures 15” x 22 5/8”.

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