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The Democrats nominated a pro-Southern Pennsylvanian, 65-year-old James Buchanan, whose only real qualification for office seemed to be that he had been out of the country for several years as ambassador, and thus out of the line of fire in the sectional dispute. Stephen A. Douglas, who engineered the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in part to build political support in the South for his presidential ambitions, was rejected as too controversial.