Letitia Stevenson

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Letitia Stevenson

Second Lady of the United States
In office March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
Preceded by	Anna Morton
Succeeded by	Jennie Tuttle Hobart
Personal details
Born	(1843-01-08)January 8, 1843
Died	December 25, 1913(1913-12-25) (aged 70) Bloomington, Illinois
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Adlai E. Stevenson I
Relations	Adlai Stevenson II, Adlai Stevenson III, Adlai Stevenson IV
Children	Lewis G. Stevenson

Letitia Green Stevenson (January 8, 1843 — December 25, 1913) was the wife of Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson I who served in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland. She was the daughter of Reverent Lewis Green who was the head of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. They married in 1866 after a nine-year courtship. Her parents did not approve the marriage but by then her father had died and her mother had moved away. They had three daughters and one son Lewis G. Stevenson who became the Illinois secretary of state and father of Illinois Governor and 1952 and 1956 Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Their great-grandson, Adlai Ewing Stevenson III, was a U.S. senator from Illinois from 1970 to 1981 and an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1982 and 1986.

Mrs. Stevenson suffered from severe rheumatism and migraine headaches that often forced her to wear leg braces. Nonetheless, she was described as a "keen observer and judge of people, and a charming hostess"".^[1] She helped establish the Daughters of the American Revolution to try to heal the divisions between North and South after the Civil War and succeeded Mrs. Benjamin Harrison as President General.

She died aged 70 in 1913.^[2]

References

↑ http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Adlai_Stevenson.htm
↑ "MRS. A.E. STEVENSON DIES.; Wife of ex-Vice President and ex-President General of D.A.R." (PDF). The New York Times. 1913-12-26. Retrieved 2009-02-19.

External links

Letitia Barbour Green Stevenson - McLean County Museum of History

Honorary titles
Preceded by Anna Morton	Second Lady of the United States 1893–1897	Succeeded by Jennie Tuttle Hobart

v t e Second Ladies of the United States

Abigail Adams Ann Gerry Hannah Minthorne Tompkins Floride Calhoun Letitia Christian Tyler Sophia Dallas Abigail Fillmore Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge Ellen Vesta Emery Hamlin Eliza Johnson Ellen Maria Colfax Eliza Hendricks Anna Morton Letitia Stevenson Jennie Tuttle Hobart Edith Roosevelt Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Carrie Babcock Sherman Lois Irene Marshall Grace Coolidge Caro Dawes Mariette Rheiner Garner Ilo Wallace Bess Truman Jane Hadley Barkley Pat Nixon Lady Bird Johnson Muriel Humphrey Brown Judy Agnew Betty Ford Happy Rockefeller Joan Mondale Barbara Bush Marilyn Quayle Tipper Gore Lynne Cheney Jill Biden

Persondata
Name	Stevenson, Letitia
Alternative names
Short description	Second Lady of the United States
Date of birth	January 8, 1843
Place of birth
Date of death	December 25, 1913
Place of death

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