Stephen A. Douglas

A Biography in Three Volumes
By Reg Ankrom

          From fatherless boy to United States senator, Stephen A. Douglas by the mid-19th century had become a political force in Illinois, in the party he created, and in the nation. His friend and frequent political foe of 26 years, Abraham Lincoln, equally ambitious for political approbation, could only lament his own “flat failure” and praise what he called Douglas’s “splendid success.”*

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*Lincoln, “Fragment on Stephen A. Douglas,” December 1856. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy Basler. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 382-383.

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