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Â Stephen A. Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813â€“June 3, 1861), American politician from Illinois, was one of the Democratic Party nominees for President in 1860 (the other being John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky).
Stephen Douglas and the term 'Band of Brothers'
Douglas urged the South to acquiesce to Lincoln's election.

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Â MSN Encarta - Stephen Douglas

Douglas had won the Democratic nomination, but Southern Democratic delegates seceded and nominated the incumbent vice president, John Cabell Breckinridge, thus splitting the party vote.
Douglas was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1843 until 1847.
Douglas lost the election, winning 12 electoral and 1,375,157 popular votes to 180 electoral and 1,866,352 popular votes for Lincoln.

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Â Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen Douglas was truly one of the great political figures of his era, one of the few with a national vision, but his reputation has suffered in comparison with Lincoln.
Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont.
Douglas began practicing law in 1834, followed quickly by political ventures, including the office of Illinois attorney general, two years in the state legislature and an unsuccessful run for Congress.

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Â Today in History: April 23

Douglas favored the use of popular elections over Congressional legislation to determine whether Kansas would be admitted as a slave or free state.
This stance caused a breach between Douglas and President James Buchanan, although both were members of the same Democratic party.
Douglas left New England at the age of twenty, settling in Illinois where he quickly established himself as a leader in the Democratic Party.

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Â Stephen A. Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Douglas urged the South to acquiesce in Lincoln's election.
Douglas died on 3 June 1861 at Chicago, where he was buried on the shore of Lake Michigan; the site was afterwards bought by the state, and an imposing monument with a statue by Leonard Volk now stands over his grave.
In the second of the debates, Douglas was led to declare that any territory, by "unfriendly legislation", could exclude slavery, no matter what the action of the Supreme Court.

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Â Stephen Arnold Douglas: Biography of Stephen Arnold Douglas

Stephen Arnold Douglas: Biography of Stephen Arnold Douglas
Douglas was elected to the Senate in 1847, and it was as a member of the Senate that he introduced, in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which provided that their own citizens should determine whether these territories should become free or slave states.
Douglas was strongly opposed to secession, and delivered several addresses on the subject after the outbreak of the Civil War.

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Â Stephen Arnold Douglas, The Little Giant

Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, 1813.
However, in 1841, Douglas was appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court where he served until his election to the U. House of Representatives in 1842 as a Democrat.
Douglas became the nominee for the northern Democrats, and the southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge from Kentucky.

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Â MSN Encarta - Stephen Douglas

Douglas was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1843 until 1847.
Douglas had won the Democratic nomination, but Southern Democratic delegates seceded and nominated the incumbent vice president, John Cabell Breckinridge, thus splitting the party vote.
He became chairman of the Committee on Territories in the House, and, when elected to the U.S. Senate in 1847 by the state legislature, Douglas was chosen head of the Senate Committee on Territories.

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Â Getting the Message Out! Stephen A. Douglas

In 1840, Douglas became Illinois Secretary of State, then served as a judge on the state supreme court from 1841 to 1843.
Douglas began practicing law in 1834, followed quickly by political ventures, including the office of Illinois attorney general, two years in the state legislature and an unsuccessful run for Congress.
Although Douglas won the election, the debates made Lincoln a spokesman for northerners opposing the extension of slavery in the western territories and a national political figure.

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Â Stephen Arnold Douglas: Biography of Stephen Arnold Douglas

Douglas was elected to the Senate in 1847, and it was as a member of the Senate that he introduced, in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which provided that their own citizens should determine whether these territories should become free or slave states.
Douglas was strongly opposed to secession, and delivered several addresses on the subject after the outbreak of the Civil War.
Douglas for president and the other John C. Breckenridge.

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Â Illinois State Historical Markers: Stephen Arnold Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813.
He was elected Representative to the State Legislature in 1836, appointed Illinois Secretary of State in 1840, and elected Judge of the State Supreme Court in 1841.
Douglas kept the Senate seat but lost southern support for his presidential candidacy in 1860.

http://www.historyillinois.org/frames/markers/290.htm (309 words)

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Â Today in History: April 23

U.S. congressman, senator, and presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, 1813.
Douglas favored the use of popular elections over Congressional legislation to determine whether Kansas would be admitted as a slave or free state.
This stance caused a breach between Douglas and President James Buchanan, although both were members of the same Democratic party.

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Â Stephen Arnold Douglass biography

Douglas secured a reëlection to the Senate, but his position had become so altered through his opposition to the recognition of the Lecompton Constitution in Kansas and by reason of his "Freeport Doctrine" (see Freeport, Ill.), that in 1860 he was unacceptable to Southern Democrats as a presidential candidate.
This doctrine, first announced by Lewis Cass (q.v.), in December, 1847, was definitely formulated by Douglas in 1854, when he presented the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which precipitated anew the struggle over the extension of slavery in the national Territories.
The bill, in its first draft, also in precise terms announced the doctrine that the Missouri Compromise had been superseded by the Compromise of 1850, and, although nothing in the statutes warranted such an assertion, its political effect was great and immediate.

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Â Vermont History: Stephen A. Douglas

STEPHEN A. Lawyer and US statesman, born in Brandon.
He became Attorney General of Illinois in 1834, a member of the legislature in 1835, US Secretary of State in 1840, and Supreme Court Justice in 1841.
Abraham Lincoln, on the eve of his senatorial debate with Douglas in 1858, conceded that his opponent was "of world-wide renown" and regarded as a potential President.

http://www.virtualvermont.com/history/sdouglas.html (264 words)

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Â "F. H. Hodder's "Stephen A. Douglas," Editorial Introduction by James C. Malin, Kansas State Historical Quarterly, August, 1939

Washington and Hamilton stood for the establishment of efficient government, Jefferson and Douglas stood for democracy and territorial development, Webster and Clay stood for the constitution and the preservation of the union, Lincoln and Seward stood for the restriction of slavery by every constitutional means.
Hodder credited Douglas with the compromise of 1850, pointing out that he was the author of three of the bills and that the bills which constituted the compromise finally passed singly after Clay's attempt at combining them had failed.
Before taking his seat for a third term in the house, Douglas was chosen United States senator by the legislature, was reelected in 1853, and again in 1859.

http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1939/39_3_malin.htm (4013 words)

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Â Stephen Arnold Douglas

In 1843 Judge Douglas was elected to congress by a majority of 400, and he was reelected in 1844 by 1,900, and again in 1846 by over 3,000: but before the term began he was chosen U. senator, and took his seat in the senate, 4 March 1847.
Douglas bore a prominent part, and on the assembling of the legislature, although not yet twenty-two years of age, he was elected attorney general, an officer who then, in addition to his other duties, rode the metropolitan circuit.
Douglas was remarkably successful in pro-rooting the interests of his own state during his congressional career.

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Â Stephen A. Douglas --Â EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica

The author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was Stephen Douglas, a United States senator from 1847 until his death.
His Democratic opponent was Senator Stephen A. Douglas.
Lincoln's opponent in the senatorial election was Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat and Lincoln's old-time acquaintance in Springfield.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031050?tocId=9031050 (782 words)

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Â Previous Illinios Supreme Court Justice Stephen Arnold Douglas

Stephen Arnold Douglas was born on April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont.
In 1840, Douglas was appointed Secretary of State and used his position to lobby for an expansion of the Illinois Supreme Court.
In 1841, the legislature expanded the supreme court from four to nine members and appointed Douglas as one of the new justices.

http://www.state.il.us/Court/SupremeCourt/Previous/Bio_Douglas.asp (329 words)

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Â Lincoln/Net: Stephen A. Douglas

While Douglas retained his seat in the election, the debates made Lincoln a noted figure in the Republican Party and enabled him to seek the presidency in 1860.
Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 began the process of organizing the two territories for statehood on this principle.
In 1858 Douglas defended his Senate seat in a series of historic debates with his challenger Lincoln.

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/bio/stephan.html (358 words)

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Â Douglas, Stephen Arnold on Encyclopedia.com

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For the Compromise of 1850, Douglas drafted the bills instituting territorial government in New Mexico and Utah, whose citizens were left free to act for themselves on all subjects of legislation (including slavery) not inconsistent with the Constitution.
In the Senate, Douglas was made chairman of the Committee on Territories, an all-important post in the next decade because of the growing battle over the issue of slavery in the territories.

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Â Steven A. Douglas

Douglas was bypassed for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1856, largely because of the situation in "bleeding Kansas." In 1857 he broke with President James Buchanan over the latter's support of the proslavery forces in Kansas.
Although Douglas was one of the architects of the Ccompromise Act of 1850, he reopened the slavery issue in 1854 when he sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise.
He practiced law in Illinois, where he became successively public prosecutor, legislative member (1836), state secretary (1840), and judge of the state supreme court (1841-43).

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Â Douglas, Stephen Arnold. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001

The Republicans won a popular majority in the ensuing election, but the Democrats controlled the legislature, and Douglas was returned to the Senate.
In the Senate, Douglas was made chairman of the Committee on Territories, an all-important post in the next decade because of the growing battle over the issue of slavery in the territories.
Douglas won only 12 electoral votes, although he stood second to the victorious Lincoln in the popular count.

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Â Reader's Companion to American History - -DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A.

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A., member of Congress and presidential candidate in 1860.
Douglas was involved in every major issue to come before the nation during his years in Washington.
After holding several state offices, Douglas ran for Congress in 1837, losing by the narrow margin of thirty-five votes.

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Â STEPHEN DOUGLASâ€™ ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE FRONTIER

Stephen A. Douglas, delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 9, 1861.
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Â Â Â Â Â Â Â A voterâ€™s version of the life and character of Stephen Arnold Douglas / by Robert B. Warden.

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Â Amazon.com: Stephen A. Douglas: Books: Robert Walter Johannsen

Stephen A Douglas was the political heir to the great nationalist politicians who first became prominent during the War of 1812.
Johannsen's work will stand forever, it seems, as the authoritative study of Stephen Arnold Douglas, the man who almost alone carried the Jacksonian banner of democracy and union through the decade of American disintegration leading up to the Civil War.
Douglas' entire life bespeaks his status as the everlasting statesman that he was and Johannsen is a master at showing this.

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Â Stephen Douglas Monument: Interior

As a young lawyer, Stephen A. Douglas came to Illinois in 1833.
During Douglas' time in the Senate, one issue was becoming more and more decisive: slavery.
Douglas saw the defection of the abolitionist "Long John" Wentworth as a betrayal, and the two remained bitter enemies for the rest of their lives.

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The debates between Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois.
Douglas then was a proponent of Popular Sovereignty, and was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
In contrast to Douglas' Popular Sovereignty stance, Lincoln stated that the US could not survive as half-slave and half-free states.

http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/debates.html (362 words)

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Â Illinois State Historical Markers: Stephen Arnold Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813.
Douglas kept the Senate seat but lost southern support for his presidential candidacy in 1860.
In the debates of the 1858 Senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln asked Douglas to reconcile 'Popular Sovereignty' and the Supreme Court decision that slavery could not be barred from the territories.

http://www.historyillinois.org/frames/markers/290.htm (362 words)

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Â About Douglas County

Stephen Douglas was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1847, from the State of Illinois.
In 1858, while campaigning for a third term as a U.S. Senator, Douglas was opposed by Abraham Lincoln, his business and law partner.
Douglas was a tremendous speaker and he became an outstanding spokesman for a policy of national expansion.

http://www.co.douglas.ne.us/about.htm (362 words)

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Â "F. H. Hodder's "Stephen A. Douglas," Editorial Introduction by James C. Malin, Kansas State Historical Quarterly, August, 1939

"Stephen Arnold Douglas, with the accent on the Arnold," writes von Holst, the great German authority upon our history, and his judgment is accepted as final by a large number of American readers.
Douglas was chairman of the committee on territories almost from the time that he entered congress.
Douglas' name was coupled with the presidency almost from the beginning of his political career.

http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1939/39_3_malin.htm (362 words)