Stephen Douglas
Stephen Douglas was born in Brandon, VT on April 23rd, 1813 and is the Politician. At the age of 48, Stephen Douglas biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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About
Senator Icon, a Representative from Illinois who wrote the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854, which enabled settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to determine whether or not their state will allow slavery by popular sovereignty. In 1860, he was the Democratic nominee for President.
Before Fame
He was a teacher and started a school for a short time before learning law.
Trivia
After his tragic act of passing, a string of violent protests known as Bleeding Kansas broke out in the state, and many historians see it as a precipitating cause of the Civil War.
Family Life
Martha Martin was his first wife in 1847, but she died soon after the birth of their third child together.
Associated With
He defeated Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois Senate election of 1858 but lost to him two years later in the presidential election of 1860.