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Stephen:
 
While none of our recent law school grads are running for President (and  
given what we have had to choose from, I don't consider that necessarily a black  
mark against our beloved University), we had a major party candidate (and a 
darn  good one, albeit a two-time loser to Dwight Eisenhower) in Adlai E. 
Stevenson,  who was the Democratic nominee in 1952 (the year of my birth) and 1956, 
and who  ran again unsuccessfully against John F. Kennedy for the Democratic 
nod in  1960:  
_http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alumni/a-stevenson.html_ 
(http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alumni/a-stevenson.html) 
 
In addition, both George McGovern (who lived in Latham) and Richard  Gephardt 
matriculated at NU.
 
Liberals all, so I have no doubt Bob Schooler will weigh in with some  
counter-history.:-)
 
Having said that, I agree with your analysis overall.
 
Paul Levinson