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Stephan A. Douglas was a US Senator from Illinois. He won the position against Abraham Lincoln and they engaged in a series of debates that attracted national attention.He is noted as an advocate of "popular sovereignty" which was the idea of letting the people in a territory vote on whether to allow slavery or not. He ran against Lincoln for President in 1896.

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