Video: 'Adlai Ewing Stevenson I - 23rd U.S. Vice President'

(Sunday, June 14, 1914, 1:19 a.m. CST) — Adlai Stevenson I, the 23rd vice president of the United States under President Grover Cleveland (1893-1897), died early this morning at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago at age 78.

During his term of office, Stevenson supported the free-silver lobby against the gold-standard men like Cleveland, but was praised for governing in a dignified, non-partisan manner.

In 1900, he was nominated for vice president for a second time, on the ticket with William Jennings Bryan. In doing so, Stevenson became the fourth vice president to run for that post teamed with two different presidential candidates.

He was also the paternal grandfather of Adlai Stevenson II, a governor of Illinois and the unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee in both 1952 and 1956.