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Stephen A. Douglas


 

Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813June 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). Each lost to Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln, also from Illinois.

Bibliography

  • Allen Johnson Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics (New York, 1908)
  • W. G. Brown Stephen Arnold Douglas (Boston, 1902)
  • James Ford Rhodes History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (New York, 1893—1906)
  • P. O. Ray Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (Cleveland, Ohio, 1909)
  • E. C. Carr Stephen A. Douglas (Chicago, 1909).
  • Text supplemented from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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