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ADLA1 EWING STEVENSON (1835- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 907 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EWING STEVENSON (1835- )  ,
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American
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political leader, was born in Christian county,
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Kentucky, on the 23rd of
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October 1835 . He removed with his
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family to
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Bloomington,
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Illinois, in 1852; was educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington and at Centre College,
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Danville, Kentucky; and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857 . He was master in
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chancery for
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Woodford county, Illinois, in 186o-1864, and
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district-attorney for the twenty-third judicial district of that state from 1865 to 1869, when he removed to Bloomington . He was a Democratic representative in Congress from Illinois in 1875—1877 and again in 1879-1881; was first assistant postmaster-general in 1885-1889, and was severely criticized for his wholesale removal of Republican postmasters . He was a delegate to the
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national Democratic conventions in 1884 and 1892, and in the latter
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year was elected
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vice-president of the
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United States on the ticket with Cleveland, serving from 1893 to 1897 . In 1897 he was a member of the commission (Senator
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Edward O . Wolcott and General Charles J . Paine being the other members) appointed by President McKinley to confer with the governments of
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Great Britain, France and Germany with a view to the establishment of international
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bimetallism . He ' In accordance with his own wish he was buried in a small
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grave-yard rather than in one of the
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regular city cemeteries, and on his tombstone is the following epitaph written by himself: " I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but, finding other cemeteries limited as to
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race by charter rules, I have chosen this, that I might illustrate in my
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death the principles I advocated through a long life—Equality of man before his Creator." He bequeathed a
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part of his estate to found a home for white and negro orphans—the
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present Thaddeus Stevens
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industrial school—at Lancaster.was defeated . He published Something of Men I have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political,
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Historical and Retrospective (1909) .

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