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Stephen Arnold Douglas fue un político estadounidense de Illinois. Fue un representante de los EE. UU., senador, y candidato a presidente por el Partido Demócrata en las elecciones de 1860, perdiendo ante el republicano Abraham Lincoln. Douglas había derrotado previamente a Lincoln en una disputa en el Senado, conocida por los famosos debates Lincoln-Douglas de 1858.
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.
3. Stephen Douglas was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850 which sought to avert a sectional crisis; to further deal with the volatile issue of extending slavery into the territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether to permit slavery within its borders.
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 A. Douglas. Stephen Arnold Douglas (* 23.April 1813 in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont; † 3. Juni 1861 in Chicago, Illinois) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und Präsidentschaftskandidat der Nordstaaten-Demokraten bei den Wahlen 1860.Außerdem vertrat er den Staat Illinois in beiden Kammern des Kongresses
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.
His father was Stephen Arnold Douglass (The younger Stephen dropped the second “s” in his name in 1846). His mother was Sara “Sally” Fisk Douglass. Stephen’s father was a physician but died in 1815 when Stephen was three months old. Sara Douglas moved to her brother Edward’s farm, where Stephen lived for the next 17 years.
