Lincoln–Douglas debates
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The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Dou
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Abraham Lincoln by Byers, 1858 crop
A U.S. post stamp, issued in 1958, commemorating the Lincoln and Douglas debates
Stephen A. Douglas
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Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate for fourteen years and defeated Abraham Lincoln to win reelection in 1858,
Lincoln–Douglas debates
…of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. Until the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides that senators shall be elected by…
Douglas at the age of 17 or 18
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Stephen A. Douglas, photograph by Mathew Brady