Stephen A. Douglas: The Little Giant
This country’s most well-known politician in 1858, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, is best remembered for clashing with an upstart prairie lawyer in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Explore the important role this bombastic and eloquent speaker played in our nation’s capital during the years leading up to the Civil War.
Tim Connors, the director of Speech and Theatre at Freeport High School, has portrayed Stephen Douglas throughout the Midwest, including all of the seven original sites of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, the Old State Capitol, the Harold Washington Library, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Connors, who has been featured on CSPAN, also performs as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton.
