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Há 5 dias · The Role Stephen A. Douglas Played in Illinois. Controversial as he was (and is), the politician had an outsized role in making the state — and Chicago — what it is today. By Edward Robert ...
Há 1 dia · Best of Enemies. A new book chronicles how Illinois political foes Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas set aside their rivalry for the good of the nation. Here’s what we learned. By Robert ...
Há 1 dia · In the 1850s, Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed to use democracy to solve the problem of whether slavery would be permitted in new states entering the union. The Kansas-Nebraska Act provided that new states would determine by the vote whether it would be a slave state. Abraham Lincoln rejected this proposition.
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Há 2 dias · Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1851, he allied with Stephen A. Douglas in support of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. After reapportionment in 1854 made his re-election unlikely, he declined to run for another term. He was nominated for vice president at the 1856 Democratic National Convention to balance a ticket headed by ...
Há 5 dias · In the 1860 presidential election, Davis opposed the candidate of Northern Democrats Stephen A. Douglas, a champion of popular sovereignty, and joined Southern Democrats in supporting John C. Breckinridge, who demanded federal government protection for slave holdings in the territories and ran on a separate ticket.
Há 2 dias · In 1860 the Democrats split over the slavery issue, as the Northern and Southern wings of the party nominated different candidates (Stephen A. Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, respectively); the election that year also included John Bell, the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party.
