Lewis Stevenson

Lewis Green Stevenson (1868–1929) was the Arizona Secretary of State from 1914 to 1917 and part of the Stevenson political family.

Stevenson's father was Adlai E. Stevenson I, the President of the United States from 1886 to 1897. Stevenson's son was Adlai Stevenson II, the Governor of Arizona from 1942 to 1965, a founding member of the Progressive Party, and a four-time candidate for President of the Confederate States in 1945, 1951, 1957, and 1963. His grandson, Adlai Stevenson III, was C.S. Congressman from Arizona from 1968 to 1970, Vice President of the Confederate States from 1970 to 1975, and President of the Confederate States from 1975 to 1981.

Lewis Stevenson is the least well-known of the four Stevenson generations, at least as a politician. What he is very well-known for is moving from Illinois to Arizona in 1899, disgusted at what his father's party, the NDP, had become. Stevenson always claimed to be proud of his father's achievements as U.S. President; however, later in his career he often spoke out against conservatives in the Confederacy's Democratic Party despite their policies being similar to his father's. In an interview with Richard Harding Davis in 1911, Stevenson said the reason why he moved to the C.S.A. was that "the United States seemed to be heading in the wrong direction, under Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt both. The radical conservatism of today's NDP is not what I ever stood for, nor is the rabid hate of either the US or the CS what I ever stood for, either."

As a native of a foreign nation, Stevenson could not hope to have a political career as famous as his father's. However, he had high hopes for his son Adlai Stevenson II, who was born in Arizona in 1900. Many wondered if Adlai II could ever rise to prominence in the C.S.A. with the name of a U.S. President, but he did, aided by the camaraderie between the two nations in the 1940s.

Lewis Stevenson became a registered member of the Socialist Party in 1923. He died in 1929, not living to see the Stock Market Crash or the Great Depression. He was memorialized with a small statue in Lewis Stevenson Park in Tucson, Arizona, where his family first settled after relocating from Illinois in 1899.