Stephen Douglas won against Abraham Lincoln when running for US Senate
It was the issue of slavery that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas disagreed about during their political debates. Stephen A Douglas supported slavery while Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
US Senator from Illinois.
It was the issue of slavery that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas disagreed about during their political debates. Stephen A Douglas supported slavery while Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
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Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln's debates with Stephen Douglas helped bring him into the national spotlight.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, hence Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas.
In correspondence to Stephen A. Douglas' friends, he indicated that Abraham Lincoln was not a radical or fanatical Republican. Douglas had admiration for Lincoln. In public, however, politics prevailed. Douglas had to paint Lincoln as an abolitionist and a divisive political figure.
Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois Senate election.
Some of the other candidates were: Stephen Douglas, Benjamin Fitzpatrick, and Hannibal Hamlin.