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Senate Years of Service: 1949-1967 Party: Democrat
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DOUGLAS, Paul Howard, (husband of Emily Taft Douglas),
a Senator from Illinois; born in Salem, Essex County, Mass., March 26, 1892;
attended the public schools of Newport, Maine; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1913, Columbia
University in 1915; studied at Harvard University in 1915 and 1916; economist, author and college
professor; taught economics at University of Illinois 1916-1917, Reed College, Portland, Oreg.,
1917-1918; engaged in industrial relations work with Emergency Fleet Corporation 1918-1919;
resumed teaching at University of Washington 1919-1920; professor of industrial relations, University
of Chicago 1920-1949; between 1930 and 1939 served on many state and national commissions and
committees; alderman, Chicago city council 1939-1942; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in
1942 to the United States Senate; during the Second World War served in the United States Marine
Corps 1942-1945; enlisted as a private and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954 and again in 1960, serving from
January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1967; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966; chairman, Joint
Committee on the Economic Report (Eighty-fourth Congress), Joint Economic Committee
(Eighty-sixth and Eighty-eighth Congresses); chairman of the Presidents Committee on Urban Affairs
1967-1968; chairman, Committee on Tax Reform 1969; resided in Washington, D.C., until his death
there September 24, 1976; cremated; ashes scattered in the wooded area in Jackson Park, Chicago,
Ill.
BibliographyAnderson, Jerry M. Paul H. Douglas:
Insurgent Senate Spokesman for Humane Causes, 1949-1963. Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State
University, 1964; Douglas, Paul H. In the Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H.
Douglas. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
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