Senator Stephen A. Douglas CDV Photograph

Stephen A. Douglas (Illinois) United States Senator and also Representative. He was the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850. He is most remembered however for defeating Abraham Lincoln in a Senate contest (Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858) but lost to Lincoln in the 1860 Presidential Election. Offered here is a photographic cdv published by D. Appleton of New York