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Stephen A. Douglas
American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 April 1813
- Died
- 3 June 1861
- Place of birth
- Brandon
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Stephen
- Family name
- Douglas
- Father
- Stephen Arnold Douglas
- Mother
- Sarah Granger
- Child
- Robert M. Douglas
- Occupation
- politician, judge, lawyer, jurist, prosecutor
- Position held
- United States representative, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator, board member
- Citizenship
- United States
- archives at
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
- birth name
- Stephen Arnold Douglas
- candidacy in election
- 1860 United States presidential election
- cause of death
- typhoid fever
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Encyclopaedia, The New Student's Reference Work, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- educated at
- Bowdoin College, Canandaigua Academy
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Democratic Party
- name in native language
- Stephen A. Douglas
- place of burial
- Lake Michigan
- work location
- Washington, D.C., Springfield, Jacksonville
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