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The Riverside Biographical Series

NUMBER 13

STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS

BY

WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN



STEPHEN ARNOLD
DOUGLAS

BY
WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1902


COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published March, 1902


To J.S. Jr.


CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I.Youth and the West[1]
II.The House and the Senate[31]
III.The Great Question[58]
IV.Leadership[82]
V.The Rivals[112]

The portrait is from a photograph by
Brady in the Library of the State
Department at Washington.


STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS


CHAPTER I