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Heritage and Education

Adlai Ewing Stevenson, governor of Illinois (1949-1953), Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965), was born in Los Angeles, California on February 5, 1900, the son of Lewis G. Stevenson and Helen Davis Stevenson. He grew up in Bloomington, Illinois, where his ancestors had been influential in local and national politics since the nineteenth century. Jesse Fell, his maternal great-grandfather, a prominent Republican and an early Lincoln supporter, founded The Daily Pantograph, a Bloomington newspaper. His paternal grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson, served as Grover Cleveland’s Vice President during his second term, was nominated for the office with William Jennings Bryan in 1900, and ran unsuccessfully for Illinois governor in 1908.

Stevenson attended preparatory school at Choate and went on to Princeton University, where he served as managing editor of The Daily Princetonian and was a member of the Quadrangle Club. He graduated in 1922 and matriculated at Harvard University Law School. However, in July 1924, he returned to Bloomington to work as assistant managing editor of The Daily Pantagraph while the Illinois courts probated his grandfather’s will, determining share ownership of the newspaper. While working at the newspaper, Stevenson reentered law school at Northwestern University, and in 1926, graduated and passed the Illinois State Bar examination. He obtained a position at Cutting, Moore & Sidley, an old and conservative Chicago law firm, and became a popular member of Chicago’s social scene. In 1928, he married Ellen Borden, a wealthy Chicago socialite. They had three sons: Adlai E. Stevenson, III (1930-); Borden Stevenson (1932-); and John Fell Stevenson (1936-). The couple divorced in 1949.

Early Public Service

In the early 1930s, Stevenson began his involvement in government service.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

Springfield, IL

Papers:1830-1966, 2.3 linear feet.Family papers include correspondence, invitations, certificates, speeches, recipes, research notes, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, unpublished papers, clippings, published materials and genealogical material concerning the private lives and the public careers of Adlai E. Stevenson and his family. An inventory is available in the library.

Papers:Lectures, 1883, 1 volume.Bound typescripts of lectures, covering topics such as California, the history of the U.S. Constitution, and humorous biographical sketches of Lawrence Weldon and Charles Shackleford. This volume is also available on microfilm.

Papers:In the Elizabeth Stevenson Ives Family Papers, 1797-1996, 9 linear feet.Subjects covered include Adlai E. Stevenson. An inventory is available in the library.

Papers:In the William R. Morrison Papers, 1855-1909, 0.58 linear foot.Other authors include Adlai E. Stevenson.

Papers:In the Lewis B. Parsons Papers, 1799-1908, 18.33 linear feet.Correspondents include Adlai E. Stevenson. An inventory is available in the library.

Papers:In the Leonard C. Schlup Papers, ca. 1890-2000, 1 linear foot.Correspondents include Adlai E. Stevenson. An inventory is available in the library.

Cornell University
Rare and Manuscript Collections, Carl A. Kroch Library

Ithaca, NY

Papers:In the Stevenson Family Papers, 1902-1909, 0.1 cubic foot.Subjects covered include Adlai E. Stevenson.

The Filson Historical Society
Special Collections

Louisville, KY

Papers:1891-1894, 15 items.The papers include correspondence with William McKendree Springer discussing the political activities surrounding efforts to elect William Springer to Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Library of Congress
Manuscript Division

Washington, DC

Papers:In the Louis Eller Asher Autograph Collection, 1757-1925, 93 items.Subjects include Adlai Stevenson.

Papers:Miscellaneous Ma

Senator Adlai Stevenson III passed away last week.  Adlai was a friend of mine, served on the board of the first tech startup venture fund I joined during the dotcom boom, Globalgate, which was the investor behind Yellowpages.com.  He was a founding advisor to Jane Capital, the investment firm I cofounded in San Francisco in 2001 at the age of 25, resulting in numerous energy tech startups, and was on our Board of Advisors for over a decade. His father, Adlai, was Governor of Illinois and two time Democratic Presidential Nominee against Eisenhower, his great-grandfather Adlai was Vice President under Grover Cleveland, and ran for Vice President with William Jennings Bryan. My Adlai, Adlai III, gets overshadowed in the history books, but he was a two term US Senator whose work in the 1970s had long lasting impacts, arguably quietly more important in the long term than his famous father and great grandfather.

While I had the unique luxury of knowing and working with him, his legacy touches almost every startup and venture investor today, certainly all of those in energy and cleantech, whether they know it or not.  “Stevenson co-authored the energy legislation of the mid-1970’s as Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Oil and Gas Production, including legislation to establish the Department of Energy, fuel efficiency standards, emergency natural gas pricing and projects for development of alternative energy sources. To promote economic competitiveness, he authored the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act which spurred cooperative research and the technological innovation which followed in the 1990’s.” – Adlai E Stevenson obituary, Adlai3.com

The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 created the DOE, including the EIA and FERC, and established the Office of Energy Research arms of the Department of Energy, including the research arms for solar, geoth

American politician and diplomat (1900–1965)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956, losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower in landslides. Stevenson was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson, the 23rd vice president of the United States. He was raised in Bloomington, Illinois, and was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in many positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and was a member of the initial U.S. delegations to the UN.

In 1948, Stevenson