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Definition of Stephen A. Douglas
1. Noun. United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861).
Generic synonyms: Pol, Political Leader, Politician, Politico
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stephen A. Douglas
Literary usage of Stephen A. Douglas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"Stephen A. Douglas. Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives on ...
The following relate to Douglas : Biographical Sketch of Stephen A. Douglas. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"When Fort Sumter was fired on in April, 1861, most of the Illinois Democrats
followed the leadership of Stephen A. Douglas, pledged their support to, ..."
3. Publications by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"That Stephen A. Douglas is the last choice of the democracy of J California for
president of the United States. The news of the split in the democratic ..."
4. Publications by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
"That Stephen A. Douglas is the last choice of the democracy of California for
president of the United States. The news of the split in the democratic ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1895)
"The loss of Stephen A. Douglas at this crisis must be regarded as a national
calamity," wrote Greeley, while Douglas was lying on his death-bed in Chicago.1 ..."
6. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"... the Senate by Charles Sumner Against the Pro-Slavery Conspirators Against
Freedom in Kansas—Replies by Stephen A. Douglas [111.] and James M. Mason [Va. ..."
7. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... the liberty of Kansas—of whom the Senator particularly pilloried Senator Andrew
P. Butler of South Carolina and Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. ..."
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