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family groupings listed on
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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
![Stephen A. Douglas](https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/784/08.08.jpg) |
Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861) —
also known as Stephen A. Douglas; Arnold Douglass;
"The Little Giant" —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.; Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Brandon, Rutland
County, Vt., April
23, 1813.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-39; secretary
of state of Illinois, 1840-41; justice of
Illinois state supreme court, 1841-43; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 5th District, 1843-47; U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1847-61; died in office 1861; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1852,
1856;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1860.
Slaveowner.
Died, of typhoid
fever, in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., June 3,
1861 (age 48 years, 41
days).
Entombed at Douglas
Monument Park, Chicago, Ill.
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Relatives: Son
of Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah 'Sally' (Fisk) Douglass; married
1847 to
Martha Denny Martin; married 1856 to Adele
Cutts; father of Robert
Martin Douglas; grandfather of Robert
Dick Douglas. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Douglas-Dick
family of Greensboro, North Carolina. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Douglas counties in Colo., Ga., Ill., Kan., Minn., Mo., Neb., Nev., Ore., S.Dak., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| ![](hand.gif) | Books about Stephen A. Douglas: Robert
W. Johannsen, Stephen
A. Douglas — James L. Huston, Stephen
A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality —
Roy Morris, Jr., The
Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen
Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — Scott
Farris, Almost
President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the
Nation — Fergus M. Bordewich, America's
Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That
Preserved the Union |
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Congress |
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Robert P. Dick —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Democrat. U.S.
Attorney for North Carolina, 1853; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1860,
1888.
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Martin Douglas (1849-1917) —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Rockingham
County, N.C., January
28, 1849.
Republican. Secretary to President Ulysses
S. Grant, 1869-73; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina, 1876;
justice
of North Carolina state supreme court, 1897-1905.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., February
8, 1917 (age 68 years, 11
days).
Interment at Green
Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C.
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Robert Dick Douglas (b. 1875) —
also known as Robert D. Douglas —
of Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., April 7,
1875.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
editor; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1900-01; delegate to Republican
National Convention from North Carolina, 1904;
postmaster at Greensboro,
N.C., 1906-16.
Catholic.
Burial location unknown.
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