스티븐 A. 더글러스

소개

스티븐 아널드 더글러스(Stephen Arnold Douglas, 1813년 4월 23일 ~ 1861년 6월 3일)는 미국 일리노이주 출신의 정치인으로 1860년 미국 대통령 선거를 위한 민주당 후보였다. "작은 거인"으로 알려진 그는 또한 일리노이주 출신 공화당 후보 에이브러햄 링컨에게 패하였다. 변통성 있는 당수, 그리고 토론과 입법의 통과에서 교묘하고, 준비적이며 실력있는 전술가로서 그는 미국 역사에서 약간의 동등권들을 가졌다.

Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A Democrat, he served in the United States Senate for fourteen years and defeated Abraham Lincoln to win reelection in 1858, a campaign known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. He was the representative of the Northern Democrats in the 1860 United States presidential election; with the Democrats split between northern and southern factions in the leadup to the American Civil War, he was defeated by Lincoln, the Republican nominee. During his senate career, Douglas was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850, which sought to avert a sectional crisis over the issue of slavery. To deal with the volatile issue of whether to extend slavery into US territories, Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty, which held that the voters of each territory should be allowed to decide. At just 5 feet 4 inches (1.63 m) tall, Douglas was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature but a forceful and dominant figure in politics.