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| name = Adlai Stevenson IV |
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| birth_name = Adlai Ewing Stevenson IV |
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'''Adlai Ewing Stevenson IV''' (born November 4, 1956) is an American business executive and a former television and print journalist. |
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== Early life and education== |
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Stevenson was born on November 4, 1956, the son of Senator ], grandson of UN Ambassador ] who was defeated in the ] and ]s and the great-great-grandson of Vice President ].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33951511/gop_sees_another_sweep_for_ike_demos/ |title=GOP Sees Another Sweep for Ike; Demos Hopeful |work=] |agency=Associated Press |page=8 |date=November 6, 1956 |access-date=July 17, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |
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Stevenson attended ] in Concord, Massachusetts.<ref>Jean H. Baker, ''The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family'', W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, p. 466</ref> He earned a bachelor's degree in communications in 1978,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://exhibits.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alumni/a-stevenson.html |title=Adlai E. Stevenson : Alumni Exhibit: Northwestern University Archives |first= |work=exhibits.library.northwestern.edu |accessdate=December 1, 2014}}</ref> then an ],<ref name="linkedin">{{LinkedIn URL | url= https://www.linkedin.com/in/adlai-e-stevenson-iv-5290a817 | name= Adlai E. Stevenson IV }}. Accessed April 9, 2018.{{verify source|date=April 2018|type=authorship}}</ref> both from ]. |
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== Career == |
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Stevenson was a print reporter at the ], and then a television reporter at ], New Haven; ], Peoria; ], Minneapolis; and ], Chicago.<ref name=pantagraph>{{cite news |first=Bill |last=Flick |title=Adlai IV & V: The Name Just Keeps On Going, And Going... |work=] |publisher=] |date=December 8, 1996 |page=1}}</ref> In 1990, he founded radio station WHZT-FM (now ]) in ].<ref name="linkedin"/> |
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Between 1994 and 2006, Stevenson worked as an acquisition specialist for media companies ] and ], and served as vice president and chief operations officer at the ]-based start-up{{cn|date=April 2018}} Stonewater Control Systems.<ref name="linkedin"/> |
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Stevenson was a Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions at HuaMei Capital, the first U.S.-Chinese ] joint venture,{{cn|date=April 2018}} beginning in 2006.<ref name="linkedin"/> In 2012, he began work as a financial services professional at Water Tower Financial Partners, LLC, in Chicago.<ref name="linkedin"/> |
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== Personal life == |
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Stevenson's son, Adlai Ewing Stevenson V, was born in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://megadiversities.com/entrevues/228-exclusive-interview-with-the-former-senator-of-illinois-adlai-e-stevenson-iii.html |title=Exclusive Interview with the Former Senator of Illinois: Adlai E. Stevenson III |publisher=megadiversities.com |last=Patricia |first=Turnier |work=Mega Diversities |date=May 2, 2013 |accessdate=December 1, 2014}}</ref> Stevenson was ambivalent about passing on his name, having joked that he would be "Adlai the Last".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19700916&id=yR5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7215,1459836 |title=Boca Raton News - Google News Archive Search |accessdate=October 28, 2014}}</ref> He later recounted that "hen 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 ] can be ]-like ]. But my dad and my wife felt strongly this was something we should do."<ref name=pantagraph/> |
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