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The debates took place between August and October of 1858. Newspapers reported 12,000 in attendance at Ottawa, [ 8 ] 16,000 to 18,000 in Galesburg, [ 5 ] 15,000 in Freeport, [ 9 ] 12,000 in Quincy, and at the last debate in Alton, 5,000 to 10,000. [ 7 ]
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois, at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.Former one-term U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was campaigning to take Douglas's U.S. Senate seat by strongly opposing all attempts to expand the geographic area in which slavery was permitted.
The following elections occurred in the year 1858. North America. Central America. 1858 Salvadoran presidential election ... Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858; 1858 ...
The first televised presidential debates, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, occurred in television studios with no live audience present. Debates did not take place again until ...
Stephen Arnold Douglas (né Douglass; April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois.A U.S. Senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln.
The debate, moderated by Politico and FOX 11 Los Angeles at the University of Southern California campus, featured the four top candidates in a recent Politico/Morning Consult poll. Here is some ...
In 1858, he launched a challenge to Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Though Lincoln failed to unseat Douglas, he earned national notice for his role in the Lincoln–Douglas debates . He subsequently sought the Republican presidential nomination in the 1860 presidential election , defeating William Seward and others at the 1860 Republican ...