Editing Adlai Stevenson I (section)

{{Short description|Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Adlai Stevenson
| image               = Adlai Stevenson I cph.3a00784.jpg
| caption             = Stevenson in 1892
| office              = 23rd [[Vice President of the United States]]
| term_start          = March 4, 1893
| term_end            = March 4, 1897
| president           = [[Grover Cleveland]]
| predecessor         = [[Levi P. Morton]]
| successor           = [[Garret Hobart]]
| office1             = 21st First Assistant [[United States Postmaster General]]
| president1          = [[Grover Cleveland]]
| term_start1         = August 1, 1885
| term_end1           = March 4, 1889
| predecessor1        = Malcolm Hay
| successor1          = [[James S. Clarkson]]
| state2              = [[Illinois]]
| district2           = {{ushr|IL|13|13th}}
| term_start2         = March 4, 1879
| term_end2           = March 3, 1881
| predecessor2        = [[Thomas F. Tipton]]
| successor2          = [[Dietrich C. Smith]]
| term_start3         = March 4, 1875
| term_end3           = March 3, 1877
| predecessor3        = [[John McNulta]]
| successor3          = [[Thomas F. Tipton]]
| office4             = [[State's Attorney]] of [[Woodford County, Illinois]]
| term_start4         = 1859
| term_end4           = 1869
| predecessor4        = Major W. Packard
| successor4          = Martin L. Newell
| birth_name          = Adlai Ewing Stevenson
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1835|10|23}}
| birth_place         = [[Christian County, Kentucky]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1914|6|14|1835|10|23}}
| death_place         = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
| resting_place       = [[Evergreen Cemetery (Bloomington, Illinois)|Evergreen Cemetery]]
| party               = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Letitia Green Stevenson|Letitia Green]]|1866|1913|end=died}}
| children            = 4, including [[Lewis Stevenson (politician)|Lewis]]
| relatives           = [[Stevenson family]]
| education           = [[Centre College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| signature           = Adlai Ewing Stevenson I Signature.svg
}}
'''Adlai Ewing Stevenson''' (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 23rd [[vice president of the United States]] from 1893 to 1897 under President [[Grover Cleveland]]. A member of the [[History of the Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], Stevenson served as a [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[Illinois]] in the late 1870s and early 1880s. He was the founder of the [[Stevenson political family]].

Appointed assistant [[United States Postmaster General|postmaster general]] of the United States in 1885, during [[First presidency of Grover Cleveland|Cleveland's first administration]], Stevenson fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with [[Southern Democrats]]. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Cleveland's running mate in [[1892 United States presidential election|1892]], and he was elected vice president of the United States. During his term of office, Stevenson supported the [[free-silver]] lobby against the [[gold-standard]] men like Cleveland, but was praised for governing in a dignified, non-partisan manner. He became the first vice president to serve under a president who won a non-consecutive second term for a second presidency.{{efn|The only other to do so is [[JD Vance]], who began his vice presidency in 2025 under [[Donald Trump]] following their victory in the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 election]], Trump previously had [[Mike Pence]] as his vice president under his first presidency following their victory in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 election]].}}

In [[1900 United States presidential election|1900]], he ran for vice president with [[William Jennings Bryan]].<ref name="baker1996">{{cite book | first =Jean H. | last =Baker | year =1996 | title =The Stevensons: A Biography of An American Family | publisher =W. W. Norton & Co. | location =New York | isbn =0-393-03874-2 | url =https://archive.org/details/stevensonsbiogra0000bake| url-access =registration }}</ref> He was the paternal grandfather of [[Adlai Stevenson II]], a governor of Illinois and the unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee in both [[1952 United States presidential election|1952]] and [[1956 United States presidential election|1956]].