1. 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)
   - Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas, Little Giant

Type of: pol [N. Amer], political leader, politician, politico, pollie [Austral], polly [Austral]

Encyclopedia: Stephen Arnold Douglas

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