William Stevenson (athlete)

William Edwards Stevenson (October 25, 1900 – April 2, 1985) was an American track and field athlete, lawyer and diplomat, who won the gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and later served as the president of Oberlin College.

[3][4][5] The following year in Paris at the 1924 Olympic Games, Stevenson ran the second leg on the American 4 × 400 meters relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3.16.0.

During the World War II, Stevenson and his wife, Eleanor "Bumpie" Bumstead Stevenson, a 1923 graduate of Smith College, organized and administered American Red Cross operations in Great Britain, North Africa, Sicily, and Italy.

She was active in the civil rights movement and the first person to give a nationally broadcast speech on behalf of Planned Parenthood.

His other daughter, Priscilla, married Richard Hunt, a Harvard professor and the university's marshal.