Stevenson came back for more in 1956, marking the last time that two successive presidential elections featured the same two candidates (although that could happen again in 2024).

Stevenson took two of the worst drubbings any presidential candidate has ever endured, by Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, yet the defeats didn’t taint him. On the contrary, they enveloped ...

Democrat Adlai Stevenson was governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953. He was in Harrisburg several times in the 1950s to campaign. ... Stevenson was in Harrisburg on Sept. 13, 1956, ...

Stevenson was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956—he lost both times to Dwight Eisenhower, just in case you fell asleep in your high school history class—and he narrowly ...

Stevenson, who also came from a political family (his grandfather was Grover Cleveland's vice president), won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956 and both times was defeated by ...

Adlai E. Stevenson III, ... (1949-53), who won his party’s presidential nominations in 1952 and 1956 but lost the White House both times to the Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower. ...

Adlai Stevenson III, a former senator from Illinois who was descended from a prominent political family, died Sept. 6 at his home in Chicago. He was 90.

BLOOMINGTON — It's fair to say that not everyone who lives in the Twin Cities knows about Adlai Stevenson II. But his name, reflecting his memory and legacy 50 years after his death at the age ...

Adlai Stevenson III, former U.S. senator, Illinois candidate for governor, dead at 90 Mr. Stevenson ran for governor of Illinois twice, losing his 1982 run by just 5,074 votes to Republican Gov ...

Former U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, the fourth generation of an iconic Illinois Democratic political family to hold public office and who lost the closest governor’s race in state history ...

Remarkably, his grandfather Adlai Stevenson, formerly an assistant postmaster general, had twice been the Democratic vice-presidential nominee: in Grover Cleveland’s successful 1892 rematch with ...

With less than a month to go in the 1952 presidential election, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, landed his chartered plane in Spokane for a stump speech Oct. 15, 1952.