Stephen A Douglas

Author : Reg Ankrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786498079

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Stephen A. Douglas by Reg Ankrom Pdf

When newly elected Illinois State Representative Abraham Lincoln first saw 5'4" Stephen A. Douglas, he sized him up as "the least man I ever saw." With the introduction of Douglas's first bill in 1834, Lincoln soon thought differently. The General Assembly not only passed the bill, it appointed the 21-year-old Douglas State's Attorney of Illinois' largest judicial district, replacing John J. Hardin, one of Lincoln's most powerful political allies. It was the first of many Douglas-Lincoln contests in the decade ahead. Struggles over banking, internal improvements, party organizations, the seat of government and slavery--even romantic rivalry--put them on opposing sides long before the 1860 presidential election. These battles were Douglas's political apprenticeship and he would use what he learned to obstruct Lincoln--his friend and nemesis--while becoming the most powerful Democrat in the nation.

Author : Martin H. Quitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536936

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Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy by Martin H. Quitt Pdf

This thematic biography demonstrates how Stephen Douglas's path from a conflicted youth in Vermont to dim prospects in New York to overnight stardom in Illinois led to his identification with the Democratic Party and his belief that the federal government should respect the diversity of states and territories. His relationships with his mother, sister, teachers, brothers-in-law, other men and two wives are explored in depth. When he conducted the first cross-country campaign by a presidential candidate in American history, few among the hundreds of thousands that saw him in 1860 knew that his wife and he had just lost their infant daughter or that Douglas controlled a large Mississippi slave plantation. His story illuminates the gap between democracy then and today. The book draws on a variety of previously unexamined sources.

Author : Robert Walter Johannsen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252066359

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Stephen A. Douglas by Robert Walter Johannsen Pdf

BIOG Johannsen's 1983 biography won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. Though most know Douglas for his famous debates with Abraham Lincoln, Johannsen reveals him to be one of the most powerful and formidable politicians of his time. This edition contains a new introduction.-

Author : Reg Ankrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476673769

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Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man by Reg Ankrom Pdf

It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to organize Nebraska. In 1848, when America acquired 550,000 square miles after the Mexican War, the fight began over whether the territory would be free or slave. Henry Clay, a slave owner who favored gradual emancipation, packaged territorial bills from Douglas's committee with four others. But Clay's "Omnibus Bill" failed. Exhausted, he left the Senate, leaving Douglas in control. Within two weeks, Douglas won passage of all eight bills, and President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850. It was Douglas's greatest legislative achievement. This book, a sequel to the author's Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship, 1833-1843, fully details Douglas's early congressional career. The text chronicles how Douglas moved the issue of slavery from Congress to the ballot box.

Author : James L. Huston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742534561

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Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality by James L. Huston Pdf

In this engaging new biography, James L. Huston explores the political life of Stephen A. Douglas and his definition and promotion of the ideal of democratic equality. By placing Douglas in the current historiographical controversies of the antebellum period, Huston updates our understanding of Douglas and the battles that he fought over the meaning democracy and its institutional framework in the building of the Democratic party, the struggle over slavery's extension into the West, the meaning of popular sovereignty and the legitimacy of peaceful secession from the Union.

Author : Henry Parker Willis
Publisher : Philadelphia, G. W. Jacobs [1910]
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:$B309617

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Stephen A. Douglas by Henry Parker Willis Pdf

Author : William Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1404313923

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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner Pdf

Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439124611

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America's Great Debate by Fergus M. Bordewich Pdf

Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.

Author : James Washington Sheahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013679576

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The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by James Washington Sheahan Pdf

Author : Douglas R. Egerton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608193516

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Year of Meteors by Douglas R. Egerton Pdf

“Egerton tells the story of the dissolution of the Union as it should be told, not from the perspective of those looking back on the crisis, but from the clouded vision of those who lived through it.” -Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution and Civil War Wives In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after all, was a national figure, a renowned orator, and led the only party that bridged North and South. But his Democrats fractured over the issue of slavery, creating a splintered four-way race that opened the door for the upstart Republicans, exclusively Northern, to steal the Oval Office. Dark horse Abraham Lincoln-not the first choice even of his own party-won the presidency with a record-low share of the popular vote. His victory instantly triggered the secession crisis. With a historian's keen insight and a veteran political reporter's eye for detail, Douglas R. Egerton re-creates the cascade of unforeseen events that confounded political bosses, set North and South on the road to disunion, and put not Stephen Douglas but his greatest rival in the White House. Year of Meteors delivers a vibrant cast of characters-from the gifted, flawed Douglas to the Southern “fire-eaters,” who gleefully sabotaged their own party, to the untested Abraham Lincoln-and a breakneck narrative of this most momentous year in American history.

Author : Henry Martyn Flint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Legislators
ISBN : NYPL:33433082341250

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Life of Stephen A. Douglas, United States Senator from Illinois by Henry Martyn Flint Pdf

Author : William Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059452113

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Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner Pdf

Author : Robert Walter Johannsen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0252015770

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The Frontier, the Union, and Stephen A. Douglas by Robert Walter Johannsen Pdf

Author : Henry P. Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0795014120

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Stephen A. Douglas by Henry P. Willis Pdf

Author : Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln,Stephen a (Stephen Arnold) Douglas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019704136

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Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois by Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln,Stephen a (Stephen Arnold) Douglas Pdf

This collection of transcripts from the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas provides firsthand insight into the politics and attitudes of the times leading up to the Civil War. Considered to be one of the most important historical political documents of the era, this book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the events that shaped the history of the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.