Stephen A. Douglas
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title:
Stephen A. Douglas
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Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A U.S. Senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. He was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850 which sought to avert a sectional crisis
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American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_A._Douglas
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2003-01-20T03:02:39Z
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2024-09-06T23:26:34Z
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