Paul Douglas | |
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![]() Douglas c. 1959 | |
United States Senator from Illinois | |
In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1967 | |
Preceded by | Charles W. Brooks |
Succeeded by | Charles H. Percy |
Member of the Chicago City Council from the 5th Ward | |
In office 1939–1942 | |
Preceded by | James J. Cusack Jr. |
Succeeded by | Bertram B. Moss |
Personal details | |
Born | Paul Howard Douglas March 26, 1892 Salem, Massachusetts, U.S |
Died | September 24, 1976 Washington, D.C., U.S | (aged 84)
Political party | Democratic |
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Children | 4 |
Alma mater | Bowdoin College Columbia University Harvard University |
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Military service | |
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Years of service | 1942–1945 |
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Battles/wars | World War II |
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Academic career | |
Doctoral advisor | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman |
Doctoral students | Martin Bronfenbrenner |
Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 – September 24, 1976) was an American politician and Georgist economist.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career, he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition.[2]
Born in Massachusetts and raised in Maine, Douglas graduated from Bowdoin College and Columbia University. He served as a professor of economics at several schools, most notably the University of Chicago, and earned a reputation as a reformer while a member of the Chicago City Council (1939–1942). During World War II, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and becoming known as a war hero.
He first married Dorothy Wolff in 1915. They had four children. He divorced her in 1930 and a year later married Emily Taft Douglas, a U.S. representative from Illinois's At-large district (1945–1947).