Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23 1813 – June 3 1861) was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He was a U.S. Representative a U.S. Senator and the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 1860 election losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in a Senate contest noted for the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.
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