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Adlai Stevenson  

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  • Adlai Stevenson was a Democratic politician from Illinois, best known for his unsuccessful presidential campaigns against Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 and for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis as ambassador to the United Nations. Stevenson attended law school at Northwestern University and worked as an attorney in Chicago. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Stevenson, Adlai (1900–1965)]

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