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A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Stephen A. Douglas témájú médiaállományokat. Stephen A. Douglas ( Brandon, 1813. április 23. – Chicago, 1861. június 3.) az Amerikai Egyesült Államok szenátora (Illinois, 1847–1861).
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. A Quincy lawyer, Douglas was involved in the organization of the Democratic Party in Illinois in the 1830s, working closely with John Wentworth. As a state legislator, he supported funding of the Illinois & Michigan Canal . He received strong support from Chicago voters when he entered Congress in the mid-1840s.
In 1858, Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen A. Douglas for Douglas’s seat in the U.S. Senate. The two men engaged in seven open-air debates that garnered national attention. Douglas and Lincoln differed in their support of the popular sovereignty doctrine, recently called into question in the 1857 Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sand ...
25 de out. de 2020 · Senator Stephen Douglas. Stock Montage / Getty Images. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were actually the culmination of a rival lasting nearly a quarter-century, as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas had first encountered each other at the Illinois state legislature in the mid-1830s.
13 de mai. de 2024 · Michael Levy. U.S. presidential election of 1860, American election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. After Lincoln’s election seven Southern states seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
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 ...
