Adlai Ewing Stevenson IV (born 1956) is a business executive and a former television and print journalist.
Stevenson was a television reporter at WTNH, New Haven, WMBD, Peoria, KARE, Minneapolis and WMAQ, Chicago and media analyst for a newspaper chain.
Stevenson was an acquisition specialist for media companies Lee Enterprises and Schurz Communications, and served as vice president and chief operations officer at the Evanston-based start-up Stonewater Control Systems. In 1990, Stevenson created radio station WHZT-FM in Champaign, Illinois. He is currently Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions at HuaMei Capital, the first U.S.-Chinese financial services joint venture.
Stevenson earned an MBA, a master’s degree in journalism, and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Northwestern University. He is the son of former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, grandson of former presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson II, and great-great grandson of former Vice President, Adlai E. Stevenson I. Stevenson was born in Los Angeles and raised in Bloomington, Illinois.
The Pantagraph, a Bloomington newspaper, reported that Stevenson was ambivalent about passing on his famous name. "When my own kid was about to be born... the big debate began - were we going to continue this name thing? I was basically against it, needless to say fully aware of how being named Adlai E. Stevenson can be a Boy-Named-Sue-like albatross. But my dad and my wife felt strongly this was something we should do." His son, Adlai Ewing Stevenson V, was born in the fall of 1994.
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“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)
“Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now,
Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying,
My heart remembers how!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)