In the election of 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas of the Democratic Party, Vice President and Southern Democratic Party candidate John Breckinridge ...

The election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency over Stephen A. Douglas and two others, essentially was a referendum on the expansion of slavery. Lincoln won 40% of the popular vote ...

But the tone of the 1860 presidential campaign was anything ... who were in no mood to compromise. Stephen Douglas, who had defeated Lincoln in that Senate campaign two years earlier, was his ...

At the time Stephen Douglas ran for his third term as U.S. Senator ... That said, the result itself had ramifications that flowed into the 1860 election and well beyond. Of course, as well know (and ...

Before Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020, only one presidential election had resulted in ... The Democrats had fractured after nominating Stephen Douglas, who alienated both pro-slavery ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

The candidate was Sen. Stephen A. Douglas (D-Ill.), who realized a month before the 1860 presidential election that he was going to lose to Abraham Lincoln. That October, Republicans swept ...

McClelland argues that while Douglas won re-election, his “political prospects were in decline, while Lincoln’s were ascending.” (p. 103). McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in ...

The incumbent senator, Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat ... for secession in the event of Lincoln’s election. After midnight on Nov. 7, 1860, Lincoln learned of his victory over Douglas, John ...

Stephen A. Douglas has always been a controversial ... to the nation was his behavior during and after the 1860 presidential election. In October of that year, after Republicans swept statewide ...