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stephen a. douglas

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  • noun United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)

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  1. Pol.
  2. political leader
  3. politician
  4. politico

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