Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames 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 Arnold Douglas (1813-1861) — also known asStephen A. Douglas;Arnold Douglass;"The Little Giant" —of Springfield,SangamonCounty, Ill.; Quincy,AdamsCounty, Ill.; Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.Born in Brandon,RutlandCounty, Vt.,April23, 1813.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofIllinoisstate house of representatives, 1837-39;registerof U.S. Land Office at Springfield, Illinois, 1837;secretaryof state of Illinois, 1840-41;justice ofIllinois 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; candidatefor Democratic nomination for President,1852,1856;candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1860.Slaveowner. Died, oftyphoidfever, in Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.,June 3,1861 (age48 years, 41days).Entombed atDouglasMonument Park, Chicago, Ill.| |  Relatives: Sonof Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah 'Sally' (Fisk) Douglass; married1847 toMartha Denny Martin; married1856 to RoseAdele Cutts; father ofRobertMartin Douglas; grandfather ofRobertDick Douglas; second cousin once removed ofSylvesterGardiner Shearman; third cousin twice removed ofJoshuaCoit; fourth cousin ofSamuelTownsend Douglass andSilasHamilton Douglas; fourth cousin once removed ofAlmarF. Dickson andHenryWoolsey Douglas. | | | | Political families:Douglas#1 family of Greensboro, North Carolina;Douglas#2 family of Ann Arbor, Michigan (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Douglas counties inColo.,Ga.,Ill.,Kan.,Minn.,Mo.,Neb.,Nev.,Ore.,S.Dak.,Wash. andWis. arenamed for him. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Stephen A. Douglas: RobertW. Johannsen,StephenA. Douglas — James L. Huston,StephenA. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality —Roy Morris, Jr.,TheLong Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with StephenDouglas for the Heart and Soul of America — ScottFarris,AlmostPresident: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed theNation — Fergus M. Bordewich,America'sGreat Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise ThatPreserved the Union — Mike Resnick, ed.,AlternatePresidents [anthology] | | | | Image source: Library ofCongress |
| | Samuel Townsend Douglass (1814-1898) — also known asSamuel T. Douglass — of Detroit,WayneCounty, Mich.; Grosse Ile,WayneCounty, Mich.Born in Wallingford,RutlandCounty, Vt.,February28, 1814.Lawyer;justiceof Michigan state supreme court, 1852-57; resigned 1857.Died in Grosse Ile,WayneCounty, Mich.,March 5,1898 (age84 years, 5days).Interment atElmwoodCemetery, Detroit, Mich.| | Relatives: Sonof Benjamin Douglass and Lucy (Townsend) Douglass; brother ofSilasHamilton Douglas; married,April 5,1856, to Elizabeth Campbell; uncle ofHenryWoolsey Douglas; second cousin once removed ofDavidHough; third cousin once removed ofJeremiahMason,DavidEdgerton andRobertCoit Jr.; third cousin twice removed ofGeorgeChamplin,WaightstillAvery,JoshuaCoit andWilliamBrainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed ofClaudiusVictor Pendleton; fourth cousin ofStephenArnold Douglas; fourth cousin once removed ofChristopherGrant Champlin,JonathanR. Herrick,AlfredAvery Burnham,AlmarF. Dickson andRobertMartin Douglas. | | | | Political families:Douglas#1 family of Greensboro, North Carolina;Douglas#2 family of Ann Arbor, Michigan (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —Michigan SupremeCourt Historical Society |
| | Silas Hamilton Douglas (1816-1890) — also known asSilas H. Douglas;Silas H.Douglass —of Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.Born in Fredonia,ChautauquaCounty, N.Y.,October27, 1816.Physician;universityprofessor;mayorof Ann Arbor, Mich., 1871-73.Episcopalian.Died in Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.,August26, 1890 (age73 years, 303days).Interment atForestHill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.| | Relatives: Sonof Benjamin Douglas and Lucy (Townsend) Douglas; brother ofSamuelTownsend Douglass; married,May 1,1845, to Helen Welles; father ofHenryWoolsey Douglas; second cousin once removed ofDavidHough; third cousin once removed ofJeremiahMason,DavidEdgerton andRobertCoit Jr.; third cousin twice removed ofGeorgeChamplin,WaightstillAvery,JoshuaCoit andWilliamBrainard Coit; third cousin thrice removed ofClaudiusVictor Pendleton; fourth cousin ofStephenArnold Douglas; fourth cousin once removed ofChristopherGrant Champlin,JonathanR. Herrick,AlfredAvery Burnham,AlmarF. Dickson andRobertMartin Douglas. | | | | Political families:Douglas#1 family of Greensboro, North Carolina;Douglas#2 family of Ann Arbor, Michigan (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Robert Martin Douglas (1849-1917) — of Greensboro,GuilfordCounty, N.C.Born inRockinghamCounty, N.C.,January28, 1849.Republican. Secretary to PresidentUlyssesS. Grant, 1869-73;lawyer;delegate to Republican National Convention from North Carolina,1876;justiceof North Carolina state supreme court, 1897-1905.Catholic.Member,American BarAssociation.Died in Greensboro,GuilfordCounty, N.C.,February8, 1917 (age68 years, 11days).Interment atGreenHill Cemetery, Greensboro, N.C. | | Henry Woolsey Douglas (1867-1924) — also known asHenry W. Douglas;HarryDouglas —of Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.Born in Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.,January7, 1867.Democrat.Engineer;superintendent, Ann ArborGasCompany; candidate formayorof Ann Arbor, Mich., 1905.Died, fromacute cardiacfailure, in Ann Arbor,WashtenawCounty, Mich.,August24, 1924 (age57 years, 230days).Interment atForestHill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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