Intellectual Leader Adlai Stevenson II

Intellectual Leader Adlai Stevenson II

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II

An American politician and diplomat. After serving as Governor of Illinois, he ran as the Democratic candidate against Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 and 1956 U.S. presidential elections. Known for his intellectual and sophisticated speeches, he was involved in key diplomatic events during the Cold War as Ambassador to the United Nations, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Timeline

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Year Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
1900
Birth of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Period: February 5, 1900, Location: Los Angeles, California, United States)
1928
Marriage (Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, Ellen Borden Stevenson, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1928, Location: Illinois, United States)
1941
World War II (Age: 40 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: No direct combat participation)
1947
Cold War (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1947–1991, Location: United States, Soviet Union, United Nations)
1949
Inauguration as Governor of Illinois (Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, Age: 48 years old, Period: 1949, Location: Illinois, United States)
1950
Korean War (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1950–1953, Location: Korean Peninsula)
1952
Democratic Presidential Nomination (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1952, Location: Chicago, United States)
1952 United States Presidential Election (Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1952, Location: United States)
1956
1956 United States Presidential Election (Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, Age: 55 years old, Period: 1956, Location: United States)
1960
Assistance with Geneva Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations (Age: 59 years old, Period: Early 1960s, Location: Geneva, Switzerland)
1961
Appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1961, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
United Nations Diplomatic Activities (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1961–1965, Location: New York City, United States)
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1962 10, Location: Around Cuba, Washington, D.C., United States)
1965
Death of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Age: 65 years old, Period: July 14, 1965)

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Harvard University - Intellectual Network Heinz Alfred Kissinger Samuel Phillips Huntington Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. John Kenneth Galbraith Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Liberal politics Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Ewing Stevenson II Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. Edmund Sixtus Muskie Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Military and Security George Catlett Marshall Jr. Dwight David Eisenhower Curtis Emerson LeMay William Childs Westmoreland Chester William Nimitz
Civil Rights Movement James Arthur Baldwin William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. Asa Philip Randolph James Weldon Johnson
International cooperation Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Ralph Johnson Bunche George Herbert Walker Bush Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
Cold War Policy Heinz Alfred Kissinger Lyndon Baines Johnson Robert Strange McNamara David Dean Rusk Walt Whitman Rostow
Media and Intellectuals Norman Kingsley Mailer Avram Noam Chomsky Susan Lee Rosenblatt James Arthur Baldwin Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
Women's movement Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan Gloria Marie Steinem Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
Financial circles David Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Prescott Sheldon Bush William Averell Harriman Robert Abercrombie Lovett

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