 1813 - 1861 (48 years)
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| Name |
Stephen Arnold Douglas [1, 2, 3] |
| Suffix |
Jr. |
| Birth |
23 Apr 1813 |
Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
3 Jun 1861 |
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I33200 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Stephen Arnold Douglas, b. 16 Jan 1782, Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA d. 1 Jul 1813, Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA (Age 31 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Sallie Fiske, b. 24 Mar 1789, Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont d. 29 May 1869, Clifton Springs, Ontario County, New York (Age 80 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
1811 [3] |
| Family ID |
F23238 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Rose Adele Cutts, b. 27 Dec 1835, Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA d. 26 Jan 1899, Washington City, District of Columbia, USA (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
20 Nov 1856 |
Washington City, District of Columbia, USA [4] |
| Children |
| | 1. Ellen Douglas, b. 30 Sep 1859, Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA [natural] |
| | 2. Emily Douglas, b. 1859, Washington City, District of Columbia, USA [natural] |
| | 3. Douglas, b. 1860, Washington City, District of Columbia, USA d. 1860, Washington City, District of Columbia, USA (Age 0 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F12271 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Family 2 |
Martha Denny Martin, b. 1828, Rockingham, North Carolina, USA d. 19 Jan 1853, Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA (Age 25 years) |
| Marriage |
7 Apr 1847 |
Wentworth, Rockingham, North Carolina, USA |
| Family ID |
F12272 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/86gal.html
Stephen A. Douglas became a leader of the Illinois Democratic Party while still in his twenties. In 1843 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where his small stature and powerful rhetoric earned him the nickname "The Little Giant." In 1847, when he entered the Senate, Douglas became chairman of the Committee on Territories. He had a national following and was an acknowledged contender for the presidency throughout the 1850s, even after he condemned President Buchanan and the controversial, proslavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas in 1857. During the 1858 Senate race in Illinois, Republican Abraham Lincoln enhanced his reputation when he challenged Douglas to a series of debates. The men were opponents again in the presidential election of 1860. Following his defeat, Douglas supported Lincoln, speaking as his emissary in the West and in the border states. Brady photographed Douglas several times in Washington between 1858 and 1861.
From the Life of Stephen A. Douglas; tp which are added his speeches and reports. Publication Date: 1863, by J. E. Potter and co.
Mr. Douglas was married twice. He left two little sons, the children of his first wife, who was a southern lady. In 1857, he married Miss Adele Cutts, daughter of James Madison Cutts, Esq., second Controller of the Treasury, a beautiful and accomplished woman, and well known in Washington for the amicability of her disposition, and the goodness of her heart. He had one child, a daughter, by his second marriage.
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Birth date: 04/23/1813
Birth place:
Death date: 06/03/1861
Death place:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=caobit&h=3473319&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
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Birth date: April 23, 1813
Birth place:
Death date: June 3, 1861
Death place:
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uscongress&h=3130&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt
- [S91] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 081.
- [S700] Compiled by Virginius Cornick Hall, Jr., Portraits in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society, (Name: (c)1981 by the Virginia Historical Society;).
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