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Author: Robert Walter Johannsen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1012
ISBN-13: 9780252066351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBIOG 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: Martin H. Quitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-09-24
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1139536931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Reg Ankrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-04-23
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1476673764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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: Louis Howland
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Washington Sheahan
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Martyn Flint
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Martyn Flint
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Published: 1863
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Martyn Flint
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reg Ankrom
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 147662044X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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: Allen Johnson
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 536
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