Biography of stephen douglas

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    More than most other antebellum politicians, Stephen Douglas is closely linked with “Bleeding Kansas” and the Missouri-Kansas “Border War.” A complex man, strongly partisan but committed to the Constitution as the ultimate law of the land, Douglas sponsored both the Compromise of and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of Unintentionally, while trying to prevent secession by pacifying the Southerners, Douglas’s compromises stoked more violence and helped push the United States over the brink and into Civil War.

    The facts surrounding Douglas’s early years are foggy, due in part to the various versions of his childhood he issued himself. He was born in Brandon, Vermont, on April 23, His father was Stephen Arnold Douglass (The younger Stephen dropped the second “s” in his name in ). His mother was Sara “Sally” Fisk Douglass. Stephen’s father was a physician but died in when Stephen was three months old. Sara Douglas moved to her brother Edward’s farm, where Stephen lived for the next 17 years. Do

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    Stephen A. Douglas

    American politician and lawyer (–)

    "Stephen Douglas" redirects here. For other people, see Stephen Douglas (disambiguation).

    Stephen A. Douglas

    Portrait by Julian Vannerson,

    In office
    March 4, &#;– June 3,
    Preceded byJames Semple
    Succeeded byOrville H. Browning
    In office
    March 4, &#;– March 3,
    Preceded byConstituency established
    Succeeded byWilliam Richardson
    In office
    February 15, &#;– June 28,
    Preceded bySeat established
    Succeeded byJames Shields
    In office
    November 30, &#;– February 15,
    GovernorThomas Carlin
    Preceded byAlexander P. Field
    Succeeded byLyman Trumbull
    Born

    Stephen Arnold Douglass


    ()April 23,
    Brandon, Vermont, U.S.
    DiedJune 3, () (aged&#;48)
    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    Resting placeStephen A. Douglas Tomb, Chicago
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouses

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      Early Life and Political Career

      Born April 23, , in Brandon, Vermont, Douglas’s father, a doctor, died when he was a baby, and his mother moved the family to her brother’s nearby farm, and later to western New York, where he studied at the Canandaigua Academy and practiced debate. Apprenticing as a cabinetmaker as a teen, he was inspired bygd President Andrew Jackson’s election campaign and became a devoted följare of Jacksonian Democracy and its  “era of the common man” ideals.

      In New York, Douglas clerked at a lag firm, then moved to Cleveland, where he continued to study law before moving to Illinois in , at age 20, where he worked as a schoolmaster before earning a lag license in and setting up a law practice in Jacksonville, about 35 miles west of the state Capitol.

      Did you know? After moving to Illinois in the s, Stephen A. Douglas briefly courted Mary Todd, who went on to marry his future rival, Abraham Lincoln.

      In , Douglas was elected to the Illinois General Ass