Dr doug graham biography of abraham
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Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas
and Their Friend John Calhoun
Introduction
Background
Surveying Sangamon
The Political Debates of the 1830s
The 1838 Congressional Election
The Lincoln-Douglas-Calhoun Debates of 1839-1840
The 1840 Presidential Election
The Election of 1844 and the Tariff
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Bleeding Kansas in 1855-1857
The Lecompton Constitution
Senator Douglas Versus President Buchanan
The Kansas Territorial Elections
Douglas and the 1858 Congressional Debate
The 1858 Senate Campaign
The Death of Lecompton, Calhoun and Douglas
References
Introduction
Illinois – a large state with a small population in the 1830s – produced an unusual collection of dock (they were virtually all men) who shaped the future of the country. Abraham Lincoln was one. Stephen A. Douglas was another. Their mutual friend and colleague, John Calhoun, was a third. Calhoun has appeared in the biographies
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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Library of Congress
Reference Number: LC-DIG-pga-00785
Robert W. Johannsen, The Frontier, the Union and Stephen A. Douglas
(University of Illinois Press, 1989)
A hero requires a worthy antagonist. Stephen A. Douglas was that antagonist for Abraham Lincoln in the period from 1854 to 1861. The struggle between Lincoln and Douglas was a struggle of values and public policy that had an lasting impact on the country. Douglas was born in Vermont, educated in New York, and came to fame in Illinois as a lawyer, judge, legislator and candidate for President. He was one of a series of remarkable men who came to political maturity in Illinois in the 1850s and 1860s. Douglas a nationalist, an activist and an advocate for the development of the American Midwest and West.
Beginning in the 1830s, Mr. Lincoln faced off against Douglas in courtrooms, in the legislature, and in debate. Lincoln law partner William P. Herndon wrote: “An erroneous
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Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln.
By James H. Shaw.
Evergreen City Publishing Company,
Bloomington, Illinois.
TYPOGRAPHY AND PRESSWORK BY
EARL MARQUAM,
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.
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