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STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )

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STEVENSON, ADLA1 See also:EWING (1835- ) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Christian See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 23rd of See also:October 1835. He removed with his See also:family to See also:Bloomington, See also:Illinois, in 1852; was educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington and at Centre See also:College, See also:Danville, Kentucky; and was admitted to the Illinois See also:bar in 1857. He was See also:master in See also:chancery for See also:Woodford county, Illinois, in 186o-1864, and See also:district-See also:attorney for the twenty-third judicial district of that See also:state from 1865 to 1869, when he removed to Bloomington. He was a Democratic representative in See also:Congress from Illinois in 1875—1877 and again in 1879-1881; was first assistant postmaster-See also:general in 1885-1889, and was severely criticized for his wholesale removal of Republican postmasters. He was a delegate to the See also:national Democratic conventions in 1884 and 1892, and in the latter See also:year was elected See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:United States on the See also:ticket with See also:Cleveland, serving from 1893 to 1897. In 1897 he was a member of the See also:commission (Senator See also:Edward O. See also:Wolcott and General See also:Charles J. See also:Paine being the other members) appointed by President See also:McKinley to confer with the governments of See also:Great See also:Britain, See also:France and See also:Germany with a view to the See also:establishment of See also:international See also:bimetallism. He ' In accordance with his own wish he was buried in a small See also:grave-yard rather than in one of the See also:regular See also:city cemeteries, and on his tombstone is the following See also:epitaph written by himself: " I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but, finding other cemeteries limited as to See also:race by See also:charter rules, I have chosen this, that I might illustrate in my See also:death the principles I advocated through a See also:long See also:life—Equality of See also:man before his Creator." He bequeathed a See also:part of his See also:estate to found a See also:home for See also:white and See also:negro orphans—the See also:present Thaddeus See also:Stevens See also:industrial school—at See also:Lancaster.was defeated. He published Something of Men I have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, See also:Historical and Retrospective (1909).

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