Stevenson, Adlai E. (1900-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 July 22 p. 1, 3

Birth date: 1900 Feb 5

text of obituary:

Stevenson Laid to Rest At Bloomington, Ill.

Adlai E. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, was laid to rest Monday in Evergreen Memorial Cemetery at Bloomington, Ill.

Stevenson died suddenly on a street in London on July 14 of a heart attack. He had been in Europe on a private visit but at the same time looked after some governmental affairs.

Attending the funeral services in Bloomington's Unitarian Church were President and Mrs. Johnson and daughter Luci, who sat directly across from the 65-year-old Stevenson's two sons and their families.

Rev. Robert Read [sic Reed], pastor of the church, conducted the services, during which he read a quotation from an address Stevenson had made from the Bloomington courthouse steps in 1948 when he was running for governor of Illinois. At the graveside Rev. Reed read the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “Lord make me an instrument of your peace. . . .”

After serving as governor of Illinois, Stevenson twice was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States but was defeated by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

President Johnson announced Tuesday that he had appointed Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg in Stevenson's place as Ambassador to the Untied Nations.