Douglas, Stephen A.

Cultural  

1. A political leader of the nineteenth century, known for twice running against Abraham Lincoln — for a seat in the Senate from Illinois in 1858, which he won, and for the presidency in 1860, which he lost. The two engaged in the Lincoln-Douglas debates over slavery and other issues in 1858.

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Example Sentences

Douglas, Stephen A., Senator: Lincoln's opposition to, xvi; attitude of, on the Dred Scott Decision, opposed by Lincoln, 42.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Douglas, Stephen A., Kansas-Nebraska Act; debate with Lincoln;   defeated for Presidency; comes out for the Union.

From A Short History of the United States by Channing, Edward

Douglas, Stephen A., 474, 479, 480, 535, 564, 568, 571.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

Douglas, Stephen A.,   speech at Columbus after fall of Ft.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

Douglas, Stephen A., appointed to Ill. Supreme Court, 10; elected U. S. Senator, 19; his early career, 32 and n.,

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace