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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.
California's At-large congressional district; Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858; 1858 New York state election; 1858 United States House of Representatives elections; 1858 United States Senate elections
Since being admitted to the Union in 1850, California has participated in 43 presidential elections. A bellwether from 1888 to 1996, voting for the losing candidates only three times in that span, California has become a reliable state for Democratic presidential candidates since 1992.
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.
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had seven debates through the summer and fall of 1858, in different communities all around Illinois. They were held from 2 p.m. to about 5 p.m.
August 21 – The first of the seven Lincoln–Douglas debates is held. September 1–2 – 'Staten Island Quarantine War'. September 14 – Fordyce Beals patents his six shooter revolver which will be produced by E. Remington & Sons of Ilion, New York as the Remington Model 1858. November 17 – Denver is founded.
1833 – The Force Bill expands presidential powers. March 4, 1833 – President Jackson begins second term; Van Buren becomes the eighth vice president. 1834 – Slavery debates at Lane Theological Seminary are one of the first major public discussions of the topic.