William E. Stevenson (Rhodes 1922)
Lawyer. Educator. U.S. Diplomat. Oxford University (Law). Rhodes Scholar.[1]
Brother… Donald Day Stevenson (S&B 1925) … The following Skull and Bonesmen financed Adolf Hitler through the Union Banking Corporation (Search mind map) …. Prescott Sheldon Bush (S&B 1917), Edward Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) , Ellery Sedgewick James (S&B 1917), Knight Woolley (S&B 1917)
1967 to 1970 - Headed the Aspen Institute in Colorado.[1]
1961 to 1964 - Ambassador to the Philippines by President John F. Kennedy.[1]
Post WW2 to 1959 - President of Oberlin College.[1]
WW2 - Setup Red Cross operations in England. He then moved on to North Africa, where he established Red Cross units that followed American forces as they moved across the continent. War correspondent Ernie Pyle (Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Died 18 Apr 1945, Age 44) said “A good portion of the morale depends on his [Williams’] decisions. His employees run into the thousands. he spends millions of dollars a year. His daily headaches, though less important, are as numerous as General Eisenhower’s.”[1]
1931 - formed his own law firm with Eli Whitney Debevoise, which became one of New York’s best-known legal entities in subsequent decades. It is now the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. It is now the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.[1]
Joined law firm John W. Daviss’ law firm ‘Davis Polk & Wardwell’, [1]
9 Jan 1926 - Married Eleanor Bumstead, whom he had met while at Oxford.[1]
At the wedding he refused to have champagne, to set an example to his fellow Prohibition enforcers, a decision his wife said many years later she was still indignant about.[1]
1925 - Assitant Attorney in New York City, choosing to work in Prohibition enforement because it paid $1,000 extra a year and he need the money to get married.[1]
1924 - Olympic Games in Paris - 1,600 Meter relay team that set a world record.[1]
1924 - Member of the Oxford-Cambridge track team, he defeated the Princeton Cornell team in the quarter-mile. Three years earlier, running in the half mile for the Princeton-Cornell team, he had beaten the Oxford-Cambrdige entrants.[1]
1922 to ? - Balliol College, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University.
1922 - Graduated Princeton University. Winning Rhodes Scholarship.[1]
WW1 - United States Marines.[1]
Died 2 April 1985, from Not Known. Age 84.[1]
Note:
Distant cousin of Adlai E. Stevenson.[1]
[1] - NY Times, Apr 4, 1985. William E. Stevenson - Reference to son Donald D. Stevenson.
[4] - Oberlin College - Gallery
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