The debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois. The debates were held at 7 sites throughout Illinois, one in each of the 7 Congressional Districts [ Map of Congresstional Districts].
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Offered his services to President Lincoln after the outbreak of the Civil War ; Douglas toured border states to arose enthusiasm for Union cause...
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Douglas, Stephen A. The Letters of Stephen A. Douglas. Edited by Robert W. Johannsen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961; Johannsen, Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973; ... Huston, James L. Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861), son of Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah Fisk, was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nomi...
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The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, and the incumbent Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate.
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Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813. He became attorney-general of Illinois in 1834, member of the legislature in 1835, secretary of state in 1840, and judge of the supreme court in 1841 and member of the House of Representatives in 1847. In 1854 Douglas introduced his Kansas-Nebraska bill...
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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS AND THE AMERICAN UNION ... The life of Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) spanned one of the most dramatic periods in American history. Born during the War of 1812 as the United States broke the last of its bonds to Britain, Douglas came to maturity in a brash nation that seemed capable of becoming the great...
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Stephen A. Douglas became a leader of the Illinois Democratic Party while still in his twenties. ... The men were opponents again in the presidential election of 1860. Following his defeat, Douglas supported Lincoln, speaking as his emissary in the West and in the border states. ... Stephen A. Douglas ; 1813 - 1861...
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; Stephen Douglas; by John T. Marck; ... Known as the "Little Giant," Stephen Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont on April 23, 1813. He was a lawyer, like his longtime political adversary Abraham Lincoln, as well as became the most well-known Northern Democrat before the Civil War.
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