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Stephen A. Douglas

1813 - 1861

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (né Douglass; April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. As a U.S. senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. Earlier, Douglas was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850, which sought to avert a sectional crisis; to further deal with the volatile issue of extending slavery into the territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether to permit slavery within its borders. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Stephen A. Douglas is the 13,466th most popular politician (down from 12,900th in 2024), the 6,032nd most popular biography from United States (down from 5,216th in 2019) and the 486th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Stephen A. Douglas ranks 13,467 out of 19,576. Before him are Bogoljub Jevtić, Mleh, Prince of Armenia, Richard Cobden, Rafael Núñez, Guaimar IV of Salerno, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, and Milenko Radomar Vesnić. After him are Dean Phillips, Dimitar Iliev Popov, Ida of Bernicia, Blanche of Navarre, Duchess of Brittany, and Vaino Väljas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Stephen A. Douglas ranks 58. Before him are Frederick Scott Archer, Isidore Pils, Charles Blanc, Prince August of Württemberg, Otto Ludwig, and Japetus Steenstrup. After him are János Simor, Karel Sabina, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Franz Delitzsch, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, and Aloys Sprenger. Among people deceased in 1861, Stephen A. Douglas ranks 52. Before him are Václav Hanka, Antun Mihanović, Peter Georg Bang, Pierre Bosquet, Infante João, Duke of Beja, and Louis Vicat. After him are Abel de Pujol, Ippolito Nievo, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Michele Tenore, José María Obando, and Malalai of Maiwand.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen A. Douglas ranks 6,032 out of 20,380. Before him are Vic Seixas (1923), Frederick Wiseman (1930), Virginia Dare (1587), Lou Costello (1906), Eric Bogosian (1953), and Margaret Osborne duPont (1918). After him are Marc Lawrence (1910), Dick Powell (1904), Mark Damon (1933), Suge Knight (1965), Nat Turner (1800), and Louis Bromfield (1896).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Stephen A. Douglas ranks 486. Before him are Lucretia Garfield (1832), Oliver North (1943), Pete Rose (1941), Robert Zoellick (1953), Henry Knox (1750), and Robert Byrd (1917). After him are Dean Phillips (1969), Jim Gibbons (1944), Leo Ryan (1925), Olene Walker (1930), William J. Donovan (1883), and Enoch L. Johnson (1883).

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