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John Joseph Douglass (February 9, 1873 – April 5, 1939) was a member of
the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
He was born in East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on February
9, 1873. Douglass graduated from Boston College in 1893 and from the law
department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1896. He was
admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Boston.
Douglass was a member of the Massachusetts State House of
Representatives in 1899, 1900, 1906, and again in 1913. Douglass was
delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1917 and
1918; author and playwright; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1928 and 1932. Douglass was elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925 –
January 3, 1935); chairman, House Committee on Education (Seventy-second
and Seventy-third Congresses). Douglass was an unsuccessful candidate
for renomination in 1934. Douglass resumed the practice of law; served
as commissioner of penal institutions of Boston from 1935 until his
death in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1939.
Douglass is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery. Survived by two sons; Paul
Joseph Douglass [Manhasset, New York] and John Joseph Douglass [Newark, Delaware]
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