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Stephen Arnold Douglas, statesman, known as “the little
giant,” secretary
of state of Illinois, judge of the supreme court, member of congress 1843,
1844, and senate 1847; in 1852, received the largest number of
votes of any candidate
for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency but was not nominated;
returned to congress, and again, in 1856, an unsuccessful candidate
for the Presidency.
In 1858, defeated Abraham Lincoln to the senate from Illinois, and in 1860
was defeated by Lincoln for the Presidency. His last coherent
words (1861) expressed
an ardent wish for “the honor and prosperity of his country and the defeat
and dispersion of her enemies.”
Lineage: Stephen Arnold 8 Douglas, Mary 7 Arnold, Stephen 6,
Joseph 5, Samuel 4, Caleb 3, Damaris 2 Westcott, Stukely 1
Source: History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants
of Stukely Westcott, One of the Thirteen Original Proprietors
of Providence Plantation and the Colony of Rhode Island with
Especial Mention of The Westcotts of Cheshire, Berkshire County,
Massachusetts and the Westcotts of Milford, Otsego County, New
York and Some of the Allied Families, Incorporating, and Extending,
the Research of the late Hon. J. Russell Bullock of Bristol,
R. I. by Roscoe L. Whitman, 1932, page 405
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