Who did Douglas defeat in the 1858 Senate election?
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Stephen Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Senate election in Illinois. Douglas was a Democrat who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed slavery in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Lincoln was a Republican who opposed the act and argued that it would lead to the expansion of slavery into the West. The election was a close one, but Douglas ultimately won by a narrow margin.
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