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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 ...
8 de may. 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 ...
In 1947 Allan Nevins published the second volume of Ordeal of the Union, which included his scathing indictment of Stephen A. Douglas’s willingness to repeal the antislavery provisions of the Missouri Compromise. Nevins especially condemned Douglas’s “attitude toward free-soil opinion,” which he called “curiously blind and callous, a mixture of incomprehension and indifference.”
11 de ago. de 2023 · Stephen Douglas Facts, Accomplishments, and Timeline. April 23, 1813–June 3, 1861. Important facts about Stephen A. Douglas, a three-term United States Senator who championed popular sovereignty and was influential in the enactment of the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. In the 1860 presidential election, Stephen ...
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians For the quarter-century before 1860 Stephen A. Douglas was a dominant figure on the American political scene, far outshadowing Abraham Lincoln. This first paperback printing of Robert Johannsen's authoritative biography features a new preface. "At once a work of enormous scholarship and of deep insight.
16 de abr. de 2013 · Luminaries such as John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay were nearing the end of their long careers, while rising stars such as Jefferson Davis, William Seward, and Stephen Douglas would shape the country’s politics as slavery gradually fractured the nation. The Compromise saved the Union from collapse, but it did so at a great cost.
DOUGLAS, STEPHEN A. (1813–1861)An Illinois lawyer and judge, Stephen Arnold Douglas served in the house of representatives (1843–1847) and the senate (1847–1861), where he chaired the powerful committee on the territories from 1847 until 1859. Throughout his career Douglas was a strong Democratic partisan who advocated western expansion, railroad development, and compromise on slavery.
