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ADLA1 See also:EWING See also:STEVENSON (1835- )
, See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Christian See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 23rd of See also:October 1835
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He removed with his See also:family to See also:Bloomington, See also:Illinois, in 1852; was educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington and at Centre See also:College, See also:Danville, Kentucky; and was admitted to the Illinois See also:bar in 1857
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He was See also:master in See also:chancery for See also:Woodford county, Illinois, in 186o-1864, and See also:district-See also:attorney for the twenty-third judicial district of that See also:state from 1865 to 1869, when he removed to Bloomington
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He was a Democratic representative in See also:Congress from Illinois in 1875—1877 and again in 1879-1881; was first assistant postmaster-See also:general in 1885-1889, and was severely criticized for his wholesale removal of Republican postmasters
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He was a delegate to the See also:national Democratic conventions in 1884 and 1892, and in the latter See also:year was elected See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:United States on the See also:ticket with See also:Cleveland, serving from 1893 to 1897
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In 1897 he was a member of the See also:commission (Senator See also:Edward O
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