Presenters

The Hon. John Spring
Mayor, City of Quincy

Dr. David Costigan
History Professor Emeritus
Quincy University

Dr. James L. Huston
        Author, Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality
        Regents Distinguished Professor of History
        Oklahoma State University

        The author of several important scholarly works on the ante bellum and
        Civil War era, Dr. Huston’s Dilemmas (2007) adds valuable insight into
        Douglas’s work to create a Democratic Party machine in Illinois, expand
        a nation increasingly troubled by slavery, carry out Jeffersonian and
        Jacksonian ideals of popular government, and oppose disunion.

        Dr. Huston has been recognized for distinguished research into the
        complexities of the economics of the Civil War period.

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Mr. George Buss
        President, Stephen A. Douglas Association, Chicago. Buss has portrayed
        Lincoln for more than fifteen years in venues that include Gettysburg and
        Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. He also played Lincoln in two of the
        seven C-SPAN broadcasts of the debate reenactments in 1994. In addition
        to his service as president of the Stephen A. Douglas Association of
        Chicago, Buss is vice president of the Lincoln Douglas Society. Honored
        for his work as Director of AVID for Freeport Public Schools, Buss is a
        doctoral candidate at National-Louis University.

Mr. Reg Ankrom
        Member, Quincy Bicentennial Commission
        Managing Member, EnNova LLC

Mr. Gary DeClue
        Chair, Humanities Department, John Wood Community College
        Stephen A. Douglas re-enactor for C-SPAN’s 1994 production of the Sixth
        Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Quincy.

The Hon. Robert Hunter
        Eighth Judicial Circuit Judge (Retired)
        Legal Scholar and Author
        Principal, Justice Publications

9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19, 2008
North Campus Auditorium, 1901 North 18th Street
Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois

City of Quincy Lincoln Bicentennial Commission 706 Maine Quincy, Illinois 62301

Symposium Keynote Address

Dr. James L. Huston,
Regents Distinguished Professor
Oklahoma State University

Author of

Stephen A. Douglas
And the Dilemmas
Of Democratic Equality

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