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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.
		In the Senate Douglas was not reappointed chairman of the committee on territories.
		Douglas died from typhoid fever on June 3, 1861 in 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_A._Douglas (1369 words)

	Stephen Douglas - MSN Encarta
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born on April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont, and educated in schools at Brandon and at Canandaigua, New York.
		Douglas was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served from 1843 until 1847.
		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.
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	DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		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.bartleby.com /aol/65/do/DouglSA.html (773 words)

	HarpWeek \| Elections \| 1860 Biographies
		Stephen Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, to Sarah Fisk Douglass and Stephen Arnold Douglass (the younger Douglas dropped the final "s" from his family name in 1846).
		Douglas was one of the pioneers at adapting the new Jacksonian party system-with its committees, conventions and partisanship-to Illinois.
		Douglas was also a promoter of America's territorial expansion to fulfill its "manifest destiny," as the catch phrase of the time put it, to become a continental republic from sea to shining sea.
	elections.harpweek.com /1860/bio-1860-Full.asp?UniqueID=6&Year=1860 (1279 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.
		Douglas favored the use of popular elections over Congressional legislation to determine whether Kansas would be admitted as a slave or free state.
		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 Douglas
		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.
		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.
	www.abraham-lincoln.org /STEPHENDOUGLAS.COM (2839 words)

	About Douglas County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Douglas was a tremendous speaker and he became an outstanding spokesman for a policy of national expansion.
		Stephen Douglas was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1847, from the State of Illinois.
		Douglas County, incorporated in 1855, forms part of one of the nation's major metropolitan areas along the Missouri River, with Omaha as its largest city.
	www.co.douglas.ne.us /about.htm (407 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		In 1858, while campaigning for the election of friendly candidates for the state senate to ensure his selection for a third term as U.S. senator from Illinois, Douglas was opposed by Abraham Lincoln, and the two candidates met in a momentous series of debates on the slavery issue.
		Stephen Foster, America's first professional songwriter, was born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1826--the fiftieth anniversary of the signing.
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	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Douglas was the principal architect of the controversial 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, which organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska in preparation for statehood.
		Douglas, barely 5 feet tall, was dwarfed on the platform by the tall, lean Lincoln, but his delivery was deep and resonant, while Lincoln's was shrill.
		Douglas won the Democratic nomination, but the Southern wing bolted and nominated a separate candidate, John C. Breckinridge, a decision that was instrumental in Lincoln's victory.
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	BookRags: Stephen Arnold Douglas Biography
		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.
		Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vt., on April 23, 1813.
		Douglas still labored for compromises to restore the Union, and he urged Lincoln to support a projected 13th Amendment which would guarantee that slavery would never be tampered with in the slave states.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/stephen-arnold-douglas (851 words)

	Getting the Message Out! Stephen A. Douglas
		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.
		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.
		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.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /message/candidates-douglas.html (618 words)

	Welcome to The American Presidency
		Douglas, Stephen A. senator for 14 years and a presidential contender, Stephen Arnold Douglas was a major figure in pre-Civil War politics.
		Although Douglas was one of the architects of the Compromise of 1850, he reopened the slavery issue in 1854 when he sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise.
		Douglas was bypassed for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1856, largely because of the situation in "bleeding Kansas." In 1857 he broke with President James Buchanan over the latter's support of the proslavery forces in Kansas.
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	Stephen A. Douglas
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont.
		Douglas coined the term “popular sovereignty” and urged that doctrine's acceptance as a solution to the problems of the extension of slavery in the territories.
		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.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h87.html (470 words)

	STEPHEN DOUGLAS’ ROLE IN DEVELOPING THE FRONTIER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		S.A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate of the United States, Feb. 23, 1859, in reply to Hon.
		Stephen A. Douglas, delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 9, 1861.
		Stephen A. Douglas, a memorial; a description of the dedication of the monument erected to his memory at Brandon, Vermont, on the centennial anniversary of his birth, and the proceedings connected therewith, together with other matters and things pertaining to his life and character; / compiled and ed.
	www.chicagohs.org /Collections/historyfair/subjects/bibliographies/douglas_stephen_a_role.htm (475 words)

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		Known as Patty, Martha Arnold was born in 1762 in Kingston, RI and died on April 1, 1818 in Brandon, VT.
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in 1762 in Stephentown, NY.
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born on April 23, 1813 in Brandon, VT. He was known as "The Little Giant", during his very distinguished political career.
	www.stephentowngenealogy.com /rebeccawheeler.html (879 words)

	Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861)
		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).
		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 Counties in Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nevada are named after him; as is Douglas, Georgia.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/douglas.html (1067 words)

	Stephen A. Douglas
		The American statesman Stephen A. Douglas was born at Brandon, Vermont, on the 23rd of April 1813.
		On the outbreak of the Civil, War, he denounced secession as criminal, and was one of the strongest advocates of maintaining the integrity of the Union at all hazards.
		In person Douglas was conspicuously small, being hardly five feet in height, but his large head and massive chest and shoulders gave him the popular sobriquet "The Little Giant." His voice was strong and carried far, he had little grace of delivery, and his gestures were often violent.
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	Stephen A. Douglas
		In March 1847, Stephen Douglas and Martha Martin were married on her father's plantation in Rockingham County.
		As a northern man, Douglas said, he was unfamiliar with southern agriculture and slave labor and was not competent to manage a plantation.
		Douglas also accumulated a substantial tract of land along the lakefront on the southern edge of the city.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/excat/douglas2.html (773 words)

	Illinois State Historical Markers: Stephen Arnold Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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 A. Douglas (1813-1861)
		Marking the Douglas family's recent gift of a significant addition to the Douglas papers in Special Collections, the exhibition explores the interrelation of the Senator's personal and public life, including his early career in frontier Illinois, his marriage into a prominent Southern family, and his philanthropic role in founding the original University of Chicago.
		History of Brandon, Vermont: the house where Stephen A. Douglas was born in 1813.
		Stephen A. Douglas and the development of the Grand Boulevard area of Chicago.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/spcl/douglas.html (408 words)

	Stephen Arnold Douglas
		Stephen Arnold Douglas: Senatorial Career - Senatorial Career He was admitted to the bar at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1834.
		Stephen Arnold Douglas: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates - The Lincoln-Douglas Debates In the 1858 Illinois campaign the “Little Giant,” as his...
		Stephen Arnold Douglas: Presidential Campaign and After - Presidential Campaign and After The Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C., in 1860...
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	Previous Illinios Supreme Court Justice Stephen Arnold Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Stephen Arnold Douglas was born on April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont.
		Douglas was elected to the state legislature in 1836, and in the same year, he accepted the position of Register of the Land Office in Springfield.
		In 1840, Douglas was appointed Secretary of State and used his position to lobby for an expansion of the Illinois Supreme Court.
	www.state.il.us /COURT/supremecourt/Previous/Bio_Douglas.asp (329 words)

	Stephen Arnold Douglas, The Little Giant
		Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, 1813.
		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.
		Douglas became the nominee for the northern Democrats, and the southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge from Kentucky.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/PeopleView.Cfm?PID=26 (463 words)

	Douglas Biography
		Douglas was born at Bennington, Vermont, on the Fourth of July, 1776, and demonstrated the utility of Squatter Sovereignty belonged to a noble Scotch family, and when Stephen was two years old, they emigrated with him to Illinois.
		Douglas suddenly grasped the whole, exclaiming: "The Union must and shall be preserved." This immortal sentence was immediately telegraphed to all the papers in the United States and Canada, and procured the election of Mr.
		Douglas and his gigantic opponent, Lincoln, were canvassing, they agreed to hold a debate at Quincey, and allow the people to decide which had the strongest claim to their votes.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /498R/danielle/Douglas-life.html (341 words)

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