Students push for Adlai Stevenson Day in Illinois
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By Kenneth Lowe | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
SPRINGFIELD — A group of determined Bloomington grade school students studying Illinois history have moved a step closer to leaving their own mark as the House approved a measure to make every Feb. 5 Adlai Stevenson Day in Illinois.
Janenne Scott, a third grade teacher at Oakland Elementary School in Bloomington, guided 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students through their studies of Adlai Stevenson II.
Stevenson, who was raised in Bloomington, served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953. He ran two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. president against Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and put in time as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
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