Who is this person?

[RJNorton]

Good job, Gene! Indeed it is Mr. Douglas.

Jean Baker includes the following story in her Mary Lincoln biography. Mary Todd and Stephen Douglas had dated during their youthful years in Springfield. Baker writes that "Springfield remembered Mary Todd and Stephen Douglas as a special pair..." As First Lady Mary said she turned Douglas down with the words, "You have my best wishes, Mr. Douglas; still I cannot consent to be your wife. I shall become Mrs. President, or I am the victim of false prophets, but it will not be as Mrs. Douglas."