Stephen A. Douglas has always been a controversial politician. He was the most controversial politician of the 1850s, when he authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed settlers in the ...

One career politician supporting and praising the ... But few, if any, could deny that Stephen Douglas was a good man who loved his nation. The little giant never stood taller than when he ...

That doesn’t sound like an Illinois politician, and Lincoln was never ... s shady political culture was Lincoln’s nemesis, Stephen A. Douglas, who vanquished Lincoln in his second losing ...

Douglas was a practical politician, a professional who saw no ... "Chorus of the Union: How Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas Set Aside Their Rivalry to Save the Nation," by Edward Robert ...

Stephen Douglas is not too popular in Illinois these ... Douglas should be remembered as the quintessential Illinois politician: he was a dealmaker, not an idealist, willing to tolerate the ...

A statue of Stephen A. Douglas, a 19th-century senator from ... and a statue of Pierre Menard — an early Illinois settler and politician who was also a slave owner — from the Statehouse ...

A statue of Stephen A. Douglas, a 19th century senator from ... and a statue of Pierre Menard — an early Illinois settler and politician who was also a slave owner — from the Statehouse ...

The incumbent senator, Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, would be facing Abraham Lincoln, a Republican lawyer and politician who had previously served as a representative at the state and federal ...

A statue of Stephen A. Douglas, a 19th century senator from ... and a statue of Pierre Menard — an early Illinois settler and politician who was also a slave owner — from the Statehouse ...