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Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

1900–1965 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Orange County casts a record vote and carries the Democratic ticket About 9,000 voters went to the polls in the county's 16 precincts on November 4, 1952, the biggest vote on record, after the heaviest registration ever. Adlai Stevenson carried the county over Dwight Eisenhower, who got 3,813 votes, and the Democrats won every county office; Carrboro, St. Mary's, Caldwell and Rock Springs went for Eisenhower, but only Rock Springs also favored Republicans down the ticket. People: Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson, Sim Efland, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, John W. Umstead Jr., Robert O. Forrest Place: Orange County precincts · Also named: Dwight D. EisenhowerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 6, 1952, p. 1

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University commencement!

1896

Poster advertising the University of North Carolina commencement of Thursday, June 4, 1896, printed at Greensboro. Among the attractions it promises is the chance to shake hands with Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson. Printed in North Carolina in 1896 for commencement at Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914.

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