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11 de ago. de 2023 · Stephen A. Douglas. April 23, 1813–June 3, 1861. Stephen Douglas was a prominent Congressman and Senator from Illinois, He supported Manifest Destiny and Popular Sovereignty and helped pass the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. In 1858, he participated in a series of public debates with Abraham Lincoln.
Home. Stephen A. Douglas. A Biography in Three Volumes By Reg Ankrom. From fatherless boy to United States senator, Stephen A. Douglas by the mid-19th century had become a political force in Illinois, in the party he created, and in the nation. His friend and frequent political foe of 26 years, Abraham Lincoln, equally ambitious for political ...
29 de out. de 2009 · The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of seven public debates in 1858 between Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The main topic was ...
8 de mai. de 2024 · Lincoln-Douglas debates, series of seven debates between the Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, largely concerning the issue of slavery extension into the territories. The slavery extension question had seemingly been settled by the Missouri Compromise ...
6 de mar. de 2017 · Stephen Douglas was an influential senator from Illinois who became one of the most powerful politicians in America during the decade preceding the Civil War. He was involved in major legislation, including the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, and was Abraham Lincoln's opponent in a landmark series of political debates in 1858.
Stephen Arnold Douglas, best known for his career in national politics and his antebellum political rivalry with Abraham Lincoln, began life inauspiciously enough in rural Vermont. The son of a country doctor, Douglas was educated in common schools and later completed his preparatory education at the Canandaigua Academy in Canandaigua, N.Y.
Stephen Arnold Douglas. Stephen Arnold Douglas (ur. 23 kwietnia 1813, zm. 3 czerwca 1861 w Chicago) – amerykański polityk, od 1833 adwokat w Illinois, w latach 1843–1847 członek Izby Reprezentantów Stanów Zjednoczonych, w latach 1847–1861 senator Stanów Zjednoczonych, kandydat demokratów na prezydenta w 1860 roku.
