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Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I
901 North McLean Street, Bloomington,
IL ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
40° 29' 9.719988",
-88° 59' 19.380012"
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Illinois State
Historical Marker
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This was the home of Adlai E. Stevenson I, Vice-President of thr 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 proactive law in Metamora, Illinois in 1858 and returned to Bloomington in 1868. A lifelong 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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Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I Historical Marker Location Map, Bloomington, Illinois Map
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