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Lecompton (ləkŏmp`tən), small town, Douglas co., NE Kans., on the Kansas River between Lawrence and Topeka. The pro-slavery

Lecompton Constitution was formulated (Sept., 1857) there, and was ratified (Dec., 1857) after an election in which voters were given a choice only between limited or unlimited slavery; free state men refused to cast their ballots. President James Buchanan urged Congress to admit Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton Constitution, but Stephen A. Douglas Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813–61, American statesman, b. Brandon, Vt. Senatorial Career

He was admitted to the bar at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1834. After holding various state and local offices he became a U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. and his followers broke with the pro-slavery Democrats, and the bill could not pass the House. At a subsequent election (Aug., 1858), Kansas voters decisively rejected the Lecompton Constitution. Kansas was later (1861) admitted as a free state.

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He fervently defended Southern interests in Kansas, even to the point of "using tactics often assumed to be the creation of twentieth century executives" to pressure congressional assent to the Lecompton constitution (Baker 2004, 103).

Two bad kings and two bad presidents by Abbott, Philip / Presidential Studies Quarterly

Franklin County 6 N Ottawa 02 0012CST Douglas County 4 SE Lecompton 02 0013CST Metal building that houses the Lecompton Township Fire Department had it's north and south doors blown in.

Storm data and unusual weather phenomena by Storm Data

What made Douglas all the more attractive was his leadership of the Congressional Republicans in the recent struggle over the Lecompton Constitution-the draft state constitution proposed by proslavery forces in Kansas.

Dred Scott revisited by Jaffa, Harry V. / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy