Adlai Stevenson I
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Most Influential Person Across History
Vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897
Why Is Adlai Stevenson I Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adlai Ewing Stevenson was an American politician who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897. He had served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his appointment as assistant postmaster general of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration , he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland's running mate in 1892, and he was elected vice president of the United States.
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