New Native Son: Brandon Highlights Electric Motor Inventor Over Slave-Owning Senator

Summary: The town of Brandon is known, among other things, as the birthplace of Stephen Douglas, who famously debated and defeated Abraham Lincoln in a campaign to become an Illinois senator before Lincoln beat him in the 1860 presidential race. Some people in Brandon now want to call attention to a different historical Brandon resident: The inventor Thomas Davenport, who created the first electric motor.