In 1860, a man from Illinois ran for president with the promise to deliver the nation from the great national shame of slavery. As a legacy of that 1860 race, this year we have a black man running for president. By some strange coincidence, he...
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Blogger's Notes: Back in those days, senators were not directly elected, the state legislators elected US Senators. There are some interesting parallels between McClintock and Lincoln in this story....
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August 23, 2008
How did a former one-term congressman defeat his far more prestigious foes to win the 1860 Republican nomination? Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles...
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FREEPORT, Ill. | This is the "Pretzel City," thanks to German bakers who settled here in the 1850s. It's appropriate, given the way a lightweight named Abraham Lincoln twisted up a political colossus here and began cementing his place in American...
Background
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 - June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short but was considered by many a "giant" in politics. Douglas was well-known as a resourceful party leader, and an adroit, ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation.
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