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Ewing-Stevenson family of Bloomington, Illinois

Note: This is just one of 1,325 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

This specific family group is a subset of the much larger Four Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

  John Wallis Ewing (1808-1855) — also known as John W. Ewing — of Bloomington, McLean County, Ill. Born in Iredell County, N.C., February 14, 1808. Mayor of Bloomington, Ill., 1854. Died in Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., November 14, 1855 (age 47 years, 273 days). Original interment at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.; reinterment at Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Adlai Osborne Ewing and Sophia Gillespie (Wallace) Ewing; married, October 12, 1830, to Maria McClelland Stevenson; father of James Stevenson Ewing and William Gillespie Ewing.
  Political family: Ewing-Stevenson family of Bloomington, Illinois (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
Adlai E. Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-1914) — also known as Adlai E. Stevenson — of Metamora, Woodford County, Ill.; Bloomington, McLean County, Ill. Born in Christian County, Ky., October 23, 1835. Democrat. Lawyer; Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1864; U.S. Representative from Illinois 13th District, 1875-77, 1879-81; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1884, 1892; Vice President of the United States, 1893-97; defeated, 1900; candidate for Governor of Illinois, 1908. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Council on Foreign Relations; Phi Delta Theta. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., June 14, 1914 (age 78 years, 234 days). Interment at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of John Turner Stevenson and Eliza Ann (Ewing) Stevenson; married, December 20, 1866, to Letitia Barbour Green (niece of Speed Smith Fry; grandniece of John Speed Smith); father of Lewis Green Stevenson; grandfather of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II; great-grandfather of Adlai Ewing Stevenson III; great-granduncle of McLean Stevenson; first cousin of James Stevenson Ewing and William Gillespie Ewing.
  Political families: Clay family of Kentucky; Ewing-Stevenson family of Bloomington, Illinois (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1908
  James Stevenson Ewing (1835-1918) — also known as James S. Ewing — of Bloomington, McLean County, Ill. Born in Woodford County (part now in McLean County), Ill., July 19, 1835. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1876, 1888, 1892; U.S. Minister to Belgium, 1893-97. Died in Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., February 7, 1918 (age 82 years, 203 days). Interment at Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Maria McClelland (Stevenson) Ewing and John Wallis Ewing; brother of William Gillespie Ewing; married, June 28, 1866, to Katherine Spencer; first cousin of Adlai Ewing Stevenson; first cousin once removed of Lewis Green Stevenson; first cousin twice removed of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II; first cousin thrice removed of Adlai Ewing Stevenson III.
  Political families: Clay family of Kentucky; Ewing-Stevenson family of Bloomington, Illinois (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Gillespie Ewing (1839-1922) — also known as William G. Ewing — of Quincy, Adams County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Highland Park, Lake County, Ill. Born in Woodford County, Ill., May 11, 1839. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 1886-90; candidate for U.S. Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1890; superior court judge in Illinois, 1893-98. Christian Scientist. Died in Highland Park, Lake County, Ill., February 16, 1922 (age 82 years, 281 days). Interment at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Maria McClelland (Stevenson) Ewing and John Wallis Ewing; brother of James Stevenson Ewing; married, April 25, 1865, to Ruth Goodrich Babcock; first cousin of Adlai Ewing Stevenson; first cousin once removed of Lewis Green Stevenson; first cousin twice removed of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II; first cousin thrice removed of Adlai Ewing Stevenson III.
  Political families: Clay family of Kentucky; Ewing-Stevenson family of Bloomington, Illinois (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Lewis Green Stevenson (1868-1929) — also known as Lewis G. Stevenson — of Bloomington, McLean County, Ill. Born in Chenoa, McLean County, Ill., August 15, 1868. Democrat. Secretary of state of Illinois, 1914-17; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1920 (alternate), 1928. Died in Bloomington, McLean County, Ill., April 5, 1929 (age 60 years, 233 days). Interment at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Bloomington, Ill.
  Relatives: Son of Adlai Ewing Stevenson and Letitia Stevenson; married to Helen Louise Davis; father of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II; grandfather of Adlai Ewing Stevenson III; grandnephew of Speed Smith Fry; great-grandnephew of John Speed Smith; third great-grandson of John Fry; fourth great-grandson of Joshua Fry; first cousin once removed of James Stevenson Ewing and William Gillespie Ewing; first cousin twice removed of James Speed and Green Clay Smith; second cousin once removed of William Christian Bullitt (1856-1914), William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; second cousin four times removed of Robert Pryor Henry, John Flournoy Henry, Gustavus Adolphus Henry and Thomas Stanhope Flournoy; third cousin of William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); third cousin twice removed of Robert Goodloe Harper Speed; fourth cousin once removed of Robert Loring Speed.
  Political families: Clay family of Kentucky; Ewing-Stevenson family of Bloomington, Illinois (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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