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Dec 20, 2014 · Stephen J. Douglas portrays his grandfather in the upcoming feature “Unbroken.” Tamara Beckwith. For 26-year-old Stephen J. Douglas, appearing in a small role in the movie “Unbroken” was...
- Early Life and Political Career
- The Popular Sovereignty Doctrine
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Death and Legacy
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Born April 23, 1813, in Brandon, Vermont, Douglas’s father, a doctor, died when he was a baby, and his mother moved the family to her brother’s nearby farm, and later to western New York, where he studied at the Canandaigua Academy and practiced debate. Apprenticing as a cabinetmaker as a teen, he was inspired by President Andrew Jackson’s 1828 ele...
During his time in Congress, Douglas became known as a gifted debater and key supporter of westward expansionand the principle of popular sovereignty. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed by Congress in 1854, which, in allowing the Kansas and Nebraska territories (today’s Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota) to cho...
In 1858, Douglas faced a challenge to his third-term Senate seat from Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln, and the two faced off on the issue of slavery over the course of seven debatesheld between August 21 and October 15, 1858. Douglas’s call for popular sovereignty was pitted against Lincoln’s arguments opposing slavery’s expansion, and the highl...
Despite his presidential defeat and their rivalry, Douglas, following the fall of Fort Sumterto the Confederates in April 1861, lent his support to Lincoln and the Union cause. “You all know that I am a very good partisan fighter in partisan times,” he told the Illinois State Legislature, most of whom were his political foes, for which he received ...
“Stephen A. Douglas: A Featured Biography,” U.S. Senate “Stephen A. Douglas Papers,” University of Chicago Library “Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship, 1833-1843,” by Reg Ankrom “Stephen Arnold Douglas,” Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission
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Apr 19, 2024 · Stephen A. Douglas (born April 23, 1813, Brandon, Vermont, U.S.—died June 3, 1861, Chicago, Illinois) was an American politician, leader of the Democratic Party, and orator who espoused the cause of popular sovereignty in relation to the issue of slavery in the territories before the American Civil War (1861–65).
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He was the youngest vice president ever, elected at the age of thirty-five, and he was the second former vice president, after Aaron Burr, to be accused of treason. A look at his career reveals a man with politics in his blood, but whose personal convictions made it difficult to navigate a moderate course in an era of moral and political extremes.
My Library. Biography. Stephen Douglas. Library of Congress. Title Senator. Date of Birth - Death April 23, 1813-June 3, 1861. Although a complex statesman, Stephen Douglas stood as one of the leading political figures in the coming of the American Civil War.
Apr 1, 2016 · Stephen A. Douglas, Popular Sovereignty and the Supreme Court. Douglas’ apparently elegant solution to questions of congressional power in territories that were not yet states did not live up to his prediction. He had failed to define the territorial residents who would exercise “Popular Sovereignty”.
