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'''Adlai Ewing Stevenson IV''' (born November 4, 1956) is a business executive and a former television and print journalist. |
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== Early life and education== |
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Stevenson was born in 1956, the son of Senator ], grandson of UN Ambassador ] and the great-great-grandson of Vice President ]. |
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Stevenson attended boarding school in New England.<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> and then an ], both from ]. |
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== Career == |
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Stevenson was a print reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago, 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=Lee Enterprises| date=1996-12-08}}</ref> In 1990, he founded radio station WHZT-FM (now ]) in ]. |
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Between 1994 and 2006, Stevenson worked as 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. |
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Stevenson was a Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions at HuaMei Capital, the first U.S.-Chinese ] joint venture, beginning in 2006. In 2012, he began work as a financial services professional at Water Tower Financial Partners, LLC, in Chicago. |
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== Personal == |
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Stevenson's son, Adlai Ewing Stevenson V, was born in the fall of 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 |author=Patricia Turnier |date=May 2, 2013|accessdate=December 1, 2014}}</ref> Stevenson was ambivalent about passing on his famous name, saying "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 Adlai E. Stevenson can be ]-like albatross. But my dad and my wife felt strongly this was something we should do."<ref name=pantagraph/> |
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==References== |
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