Home of Adlai E. Stevenson I
CITY:
Bloomington
COUNTY:
McLean
DEDICATED BY:
McClean County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society.
DEDICATION DATE:
January 1, 1972 at 6:00:00 AM
The marker is located in Bloomington, at 901 North McLean Street, across the street from the east end of the Franklin Park Historical District.
This was the home of Adlai E. Stevenson I, Vice-President of the United States, 1893-1897. Stevenson was born in Kentucky in 1835 and came to Bloomington in 1852. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington and Centre College in Kentucky. He began to practice law in Metamora, Illinois in 1858 and returned to Bloomington in 1868. A lifelong Democrat, Stevenson was elected to Congress in 1874 and 1878. He served as First Assistant Postmaster General in President Grover Cleveland’s first administration, 1885-1889, and Vice President in Cleveland’s second administration, 1893-1897. Stevenson bought this house in 1889. He died in 1914.