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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 following elections occurred in the year 1858. North America. Central America. 1858 Salvadoran presidential election ... Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858; 1858 ...
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.
The debate between four candidates vying for a California U.S. Senate seat heated up fast and never cooled off — mostly as the three House Democrats started going after Republican Steve Garvey.
Since 1988, the Commission on Presidential Debates has been the sponsor of the debates. (Note: Before the commission was formed, debates were organized either by TV networks or between campaigns.)