Adlai Stevenson IIi
Born 5 Feb 1900

Stevenson lost to Eisenhower twice, in 1952 and 1956, but his speeches drew a generation of educated professionals into Democratic politics, the "amateur" reform clubs that challenged city machines. His 1956 call to stop atmospheric nuclear testing was dismissed at the time and realised in the 1963…

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