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11 de ago. de 2023 · Stephen Douglas was the only son and second-born of two children of Stephen Arnold Douglas and Sarah Fisk Douglass. Stephen Douglass dropped the last “s” in the family name later in life. Stephen Douglas’s father was a successful physician who died unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 1, 1813, just nine weeks after his son’s birth.
t. e. The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Until the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that senators ...
22 de mai. de 2023 · Stephen A. Douglas var en amerikansk demokratisk politiker. Efter en karriere som jurist i Illinois blev Douglas valgt til Repræsentanternes Hus 1843, og fra 1847 havde han sæde i Senatet. Douglas var en af hovedkræfterne bag Kansas-Nebraska-loven 1854, der gav de nye delstater selvbestemmelsesret i slaverispørgsmålet.
11 de jun. de 2018 · Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–61) US statesman. Douglas served in the House of Representatives (1843–47), before becoming Senator for Illinois (1847–61). He tried to unite the Democratic Party on the issue of slavery, and was instrumental in the Compromise of 1850. He sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), that promoted popular ...
Stephen A. Douglas (entre 1855 et 1861). Stephen Arnold Douglas, né le 23 avril 1813 à Brandon, et mort le 3 mai 1861 (à 48 ans) à Chicago, est un homme politique américain et un avocat de l' Illinois. Il fut l'un des candidats du Parti démocrate à la présidence lors des élections de 1860, remportées par le candidat républicain ...
12 de fev. de 2021 · Abraham Lincoln’s fame in the 1850s owed mainly to his provoking a public quarrel with Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas over the correct interpretation of the American founders. As the nation grew increasingly divided over the future of slavery, Lincoln and the new Republican Party sought to prevent the expansion of slavery into federal territories […]
15 de mar. de 2019 · Lincoln-Douglas Debates. In the summer and the fall of 1858 two of the most influential statesmen of the late antebellum era, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln faced off in a series of debates focused on slavery as they vied for a United States Senate seat representing Illinois. In the long term, the Lincoln-Douglas debates propelled Lincoln ...
