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	Stephen A. Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813–June 3, 1861), American politician from Illinois, was one of the Democratic Party nominees for President in 1860 (the other being John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky).
		Stephen Douglas and the term 'Band of Brothers'
		Douglas died from typhoid fever on June 3, 1861 at Chicago, where he was buried on the shore of Lake Michigan; the site was afterwards bought by the state, and an imposing monument with a statue by Leonard Volk now stands over his grave.
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		Douglas, however, brought about the reopening of the entire slavery question in 1854 by incorporating in the Kansas-Nebraska Act (the bills that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska) the principle of “popular sovereignty,” which provided that the inhabitants of these territories might decide whether slavery should be permitted within their borders.
		Douglas had won the Democratic nomination, but Southern Democratic delegates seceded and nominated the incumbent vice president, John Cabell Breckinridge, thus splitting the party vote.
		Douglas was soon nicknamed the Little Giant, for his small stature but great ability as an orator and legislator.
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	Stephen A. Douglas
		Stephen Douglas was truly one of the great political figures of his era, one of the few with a national vision, but his reputation has suffered in comparison with Lincoln.
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont.
		Douglas began practicing law in 1834, followed quickly by political ventures, including the office of Illinois attorney general, two years in the state legislature and an unsuccessful run for Congress.
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	Today in History: April 23
		Douglas favored the use of popular elections over Congressional legislation to determine whether Kansas would be admitted as a slave or free state.
		Douglas left New England at the age of twenty, settling in Illinois where he quickly established himself as a leader in the Democratic Party.
		Although Douglas won the election of 1858, the national publicity accorded a lesser-known rival set the stage for Douglas' defeat in the presidential election of 1860.
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	Stephen A. Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Douglas died on 3 June 1861 at Chicago, where he was buried on the shore of Lake Michigan; the site was afterwards bought by the state, and an imposing monument with a statue by Leonard Volk now stands over his grave.
		Douglas, however, won the senatorship by a vote in the legislature of 54 to 46, but the debates helped boost Lincoln into the presidency.
		Douglas ardently supported the policy of making Federal appropriations (of land, but not of money) for internal improvements of a national character, being a prominent advocate of the construction, by government aid, of a trans-continental
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	Notes for Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born at Brandon, Vermont, on the 23rd of April, 1813.
		But the president and trustees refused to be swayed, and in 1858 Stephen and Adele Douglas gave the land to the University of Chicago.
		Douglas offered to withdraw the gift and subscribe $50,000 to locate the University on another site.
	www.ronulrich.com /rfuged/nti46362.htm (831 words)

	Stephen Arnold Douglas: Biography of Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Stephen Arnold Douglas: Biography of Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Douglas was elected to the Senate in 1847, and it was as a member of the Senate that he introduced, in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which provided that their own citizens should determine whether these territories should become free or slave states.
		Douglas was strongly opposed to secession, and delivered several addresses on the subject after the outbreak of the Civil War.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/D/StephenArnoldDouglas.html (831 words)

	Douglas, Stephen Arnold. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		Douglas won only 12 electoral votes, although he stood second to the victorious Lincoln in the popular count.
		Douglas believed that popular sovereignty would unite the northern and southern wings of the Democratic party and at the same time settle the slavery issue peacefully.
		In the Senate, Douglas was made chairman of the Committee on Territories, an all-important post in the next decade because of the growing battle over the issue of slavery in the territories.
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	Stephen Arnold Douglass biography
		Douglas secured a re�lection to the Senate, but his position had become so altered through his opposition to the recognition of the Lecompton Constitution in Kansas and by reason of his "Freeport Doctrine" (see Freeport, Ill.), that in 1860 he was unacceptable to Southern Democrats as a presidential candidate.
		This doctrine, first announced by Lewis Cass (q.v.), in December, 1847, was definitely formulated by Douglas in 1854, when he presented the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which precipitated anew the struggle over the extension of slavery in the national Territories.
		The bill, in its first draft, also in precise terms announced the doctrine that the Missouri Compromise had been superseded by the Compromise of 1850, and, although nothing in the statutes warranted such an assertion, its political effect was great and immediate.
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		Stephen A. Douglas never knew his father, who died in his thirty-second year, when Douglas was just over two months old.
		Stephen Arnold Douglass foreswore agricultural pursuits for medicine, studying for a time at Middlebury College and with a Brandon physician before beginning his own practice.
		STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS was born in 1782 in Stephentown, NY, on the Asa Douglas homestead.
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	Stephen A. Douglas,
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was bornb on a farm near Brandon, Vermont, in 1813.
		Douglas took the position that although Slavery might be a bad thing, it was not a reason to sacrifice the Union.
		Douglas won the senate race in 1858 and was nominated by the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1860.
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	Stephen Arnold Douglas, The Little Giant
		Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, 1813.
		Douglas became the nominee for the northern Democrats, and the southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge from Kentucky.
		Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Bill into the Senate and opposed Kansas’s Lecompton Constitution, which would have allowed slavery in the territory, because it violated his belief in popular sovereignty.
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	Getting the Message Out! Stephen A. Douglas
		Although Douglas won the election, the debates made Lincoln a spokesman for northerners opposing the extension of slavery in the western territories and a national political figure.
		Douglas saw popular sovereignty, which asked the settlers of federal territories to decide the status (free or slave) under which they would join the Union, as a way to remove the issue of slavery's expansion from national politics.
		Douglas began practicing law in 1834, followed quickly by political ventures, including the office of Illinois attorney general, two years in the state legislature and an unsuccessful run for Congress.
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	Illinois State Historical Markers: Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813.
		As an expansionist, Douglas favored acquisition of Oregon to 54 40' north latitude, annexation of Texas, and Federal grants for constructing a transcontinental railroad.
		In the debates of the 1858 Senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln asked Douglas to reconcile 'Popular Sovereignty' and the Supreme Court decision that slavery could not be barred from the territories.
	www.historyillinois.org /frames/markers/290.htm (309 words)

	Stephen Arnold Douglas: Biography of Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Douglas was elected to the Senate in 1847, and it was as a member of the Senate that he introduced, in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, which provided that their own citizens should determine whether these territories should become free or slave states.
		Douglas was strongly opposed to secession, and delivered several addresses on the subject after the outbreak of the Civil War.
		Douglas for president and the other John C. Breckenridge.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/D/StephenArnoldDouglas.html (234 words)

	Lincoln/Net: Stephen A. Douglas
		Douglas was born in Vermont in 1813 and migrated to Illinois at the age of twenty.
		Douglas hoped that this return to local control would remove the divisive slavery issue from national politics, but instead it only enraged northerners, including not only abolitionists but also many of his own Democratic constituents.
		While Douglas retained his seat in the election, the debates made Lincoln a noted figure in the Republican Party and enabled him to seek the presidency in 1860.
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	Douglas, Stephen Arnold on Encyclopedia.com
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		For the Compromise of 1850, Douglas drafted the bills instituting territorial government in New Mexico and Utah, whose citizens were left free to act for themselves on all subjects of legislation (including slavery) not inconsistent with the Constitution.
		Although Douglas led on all 57 ballots taken there for the presidential nomination he was unable to muster the necessary two-thirds of the vote, and the convention adjourned.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/DouglS1A1.asp (1034 words)

	"F. H. Hodder's "Stephen A. Douglas," Editorial Introduction by James C. Malin, Kansas State Historical Quarterly, August, 1939
		Douglas opposed it upon the ground that the land grant ought to be made directly to the state.
		Douglas' career was controlled by faith in the right of the people to govern themselves and by devotion to the interests of the West.
		Hodder credited Douglas with the compromise of 1850, pointing out that he was the author of three of the bills and that the bills which constituted the compromise finally passed singly after Clay's attempt at combining them had failed.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1939/39_3_malin.htm (4013 words)

	Stephen A. Douglas
		Douglas quickly joined the ranks of land speculators in Chicago, making substantial investments on the South Side, including 160 acres near 31st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, which became the nucleus of the Douglas neighborhood; 2,964 acres in the Calumet region; and 4,610 acres from the Illinois Central Railroad.
		A Quincy lawyer, Douglas was involved in the organization of the Democratic Party in Illinois in the 1830s, working closely with John Wentworth.
		Senator Douglas was instrumental in designating Chicago the northern terminus of the Illinois Central Railroad and worked for a transcontinental route.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2404.html (249 words)

	MSN Encarta - Stephen Douglas
		Douglas, however, brought about the reopening of the entire slavery question in 1854 by incorporating in the Kansas-Nebraska Act (the bills that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska) the principle of “popular sovereignty,” which provided that the inhabitants of these territories might decide whether slavery should be permitted within their borders.
		Douglas was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1843 until 1847.
		Douglas was soon nicknamed the Little Giant, for his small stature but great ability as an orator and legislator.
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	Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Douglas should die without issue, all her slaves should be freed and removed to Liberia at the expense of her estate, saying further that this provision was in accordance with the wishes of Judge Douglas, who would not consent to own a slave.
		Douglas was among the earliest advocates of the annexation of Texas, and, after the treaty for that object had failed in the senate, he introduced joint resolutions having practically the same effect.
		Douglas, as a member of the commit, tee of thirteen, and on the floor of the senate, labored incessantly to avert civil war by any reasonable measures of adjustment, but at the beginning of hostilities he threw the whole weight of his influence in behalf of the Union, and gave Mr.
	www.famousamericans.net /stephenarnolddouglas (2641 words)

	Today in History: April 23
		U.S. congressman, senator, and presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, 1813.
		Although Douglas won the election of 1858, the national publicity accorded a lesser-known rival set the stage for Douglas' defeat in the presidential election of 1860.
		Douglas favored the use of popular elections over Congressional legislation to determine whether Kansas would be admitted as a slave or free state.
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		Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861)Brief biographical chronology of the leading politician in Illinois prior to Lincoln, and a serious contender for the Presidency throughout the 1850s.
		The "Little Giant" who wanted to bind the sections together materially with a transcontinental railroad ended up laying the foundation for civil war with the Kansas- Nebraska act.
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	Stephen Arnold Douglas Biography / Profile of Stephen Arnold Douglas Biographies
		Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vt., on April 23, 1813.
		Stephen Arnold Douglas Biography / Profile of Stephen Arnold Douglas Biographies
		U.S. senator Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861), the foremost leader of the Democratic party in the decade preceding the Civil War, was Lincoln's political rival for the presidency.
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	About Douglas County
		Stephen Douglas was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1847, from the State of Illinois.
		Douglas was a tremendous speaker and he became an outstanding spokesman for a policy of national expansion.
		Douglas, known as the "little giant" was reelected, but Lincoln gained a national reputation.
	www.co.douglas.ne.us /about.htm (509 words)

	"F. H. Hodder's "Stephen A. Douglas," Editorial Introduction by James C. Malin, Kansas State Historical Quarterly, August, 1939
		"Stephen Arnold Douglas, with the accent on the Arnold," writes von Holst, the great German authority upon our history, and his judgment is accepted as final by a large number of American readers.
		Douglas' career was controlled by faith in the right of the people to govern themselves and by devotion to the interests of the West.
		Douglas' bills were referred to his committee and by him reported with slight changes to the senate.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1939/39_3_malin.htm (509 words)

	Notes for Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Stephen A. Douglas became a leader of the Illinois Democratic Party while still in his twenties.
		In 1843 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where his small stature and powerful rhetoric earned him the nickname "The Little Giant." In 1847, when he entered the Senate, Douglas became chairman of the Committee on Territories.
		During the 1858 Senate race in Illinois, Republican Abraham Lincoln enhanced his reputation when he challenged Douglas to a series of debates.
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