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. ).
- synonyms: Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little Giant
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