Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas, (born April 23, 1813, Brandon, Vt., U.S.—died June 3, 1861, Chicago, Ill.), U.S. politician. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–47) and Senate (1847–61), where he strongly supported the Union and national expansion. To ...
he was stricken with typhoid fever and died. Douglas's reputation suffered with the growth of the Lincoln legend. In recent years, however, historians have asserted that he was one of the few men of pre–Civil War era with a truly national vision, and this was both the basis for his ho...
An advocate of the Union and a believer in manifest destiny, Stephen A. Douglas – called "the Little Giant" because he was short and stocky but had great speech skills – was on the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. He sought to ease tension between the No...
Stephen Douglas was born into a well-educated New England family, though Stephen's life was changed profoundly when his father, a doctor, died suddenly when Stephen was two months old. As a teenager Stephen was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker so he would learn a trade, and he hated the work...
Lincoln however met a tough challenge from Southern candidate Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party. The Day Abraham Lincoln Died.. Both speakers discuss "Negroes," not a polite term anymore though it was then, and Stephen Douglas enjoys playing to the audience's passions by occasionally unloadi...
Dr. Douglas died suddenly of apoplexy in July, 1813; it is said that he held the infant Stephen in his arms when he was stricken. His widow made her home with a bachelor brother on a farm near Brandon, and the boy's early years were passed in an environment familiar to readers...
Douglas died too soon to make clear to a passion-stirred world that he was as warmly attached to the Union, as intensely loyal, as devotedly patriotic, as Lincoln himself. The grave questions arising from the War, which disturbed our politics for twenty years, the great economic questions ...
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Stephen Douglas is known now mostly for the debates he had with another famous fellow, Abraham Lincoln. I took a break from my reading of Doris Kearn Goodwin’s massive tome, Team of Rivals, to read a few other books, including this much more brief biography of Stephen Douglas, who was ...
He gave up law quickly and entered the political world, first in local politics and then on the national stage, where the issue of slavery was at the forefront. He married Martha Martin in 1847, but she died after the birth of a daughter, in 1853, leaving Douglas with two sons. The ...