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Stevenson circa 1953. This is the electoral history of Adlai Stevenson II, who served as Governor of Illinois (1949–1953) and 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1961–1965), and was twice the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States, losing both the 1952 and 1956 presidential general elections to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (/ ˈ æ d l eɪ /; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
Adlai Stevenson and the World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (1977) online; Moon, Henry Lee. "The Negro Vote in the Presidential Election of 1956." Journal of Negro Education (1957): 219–230. online; Nichols, David A. Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War (2012). Scheele, Henry Z.
Both Thurmond and former Governor James F. Byrnes would endorse national Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower [10] – who ran under an independent label in South Carolina – and Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II only won narrowly due to two- and three-to-one majorities in the poor white counties that had given substantial opposition to ...
Electoral vote: Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 442: Adlai Stevenson (D) 89: 1952 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Eisenhower, blue denotes states won by Stevenson. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Republican gain: Seats contested: 35 of 96 seats (32 Class 1 seats ...
Stevenson narrowly won New York City overall by carrying the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, while Eisenhower won Queens and Staten Island. Eisenhower won the election in New York by a 22-point landslide. 1956 was the last election in which a Republican presidential candidate took more than 60% of the vote in New York State and ...
Electoral history of Adlai Stevenson II; S. Stevenson family; Stevenson House (Bloomington, Illinois) Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Livonia, Michigan) Ellen Stevenson
Tennessee voters chose eleven [3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Incumbent Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower narrowly carried the state over Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, becoming the first Republican nominee ever to carry the state more than once.