Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I - Bloomington, Illinois
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BruceS
N 40° 29.163 W 088° 59.323
16T E 331448 N 4483605
Historical marker in front of former home of Adlai E. Stevenson I.
Waymark Code: WM7YV9
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 12/25/2009
Views: 9
Text of marker:
Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I
This was the home of Adlai E. Stevenson I, Vice-President of the the United States, 1893 - 1897. Stevenson was born in Kentucky in 1835 and came to Bloomington in 1852. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington and Centre College in Kentucky. He began to practive law in Metamora, Illinois, in 1858 and returned to Bloomington in 1868. A liefelong Democrat, Stevenson was elected to Congress in 1874 and 1878. He served as First Assistant Postmaster General in President Grover Cleveland's first administration, 1885- 1889, and Vice-President in Cleveland's second administration, 1893-1897. Stevenson bought this house in 1889. He died in 1914.
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