Adlai Stevenson III
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (born October 10, 1930) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981.
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“The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.”
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