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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaHelen Gahagan DOUGLAS
(1900-1980)
DOUGLAS, Helen Gahagan, a
Representative from California; born in Boonton, Morris County,
N.J., November 25, 1900; attended the public schools, Berkeley
School for Girls, Brooklyn, N.Y., Capen School for Girls,
Northampton, Mass., and Barnard College, New York City; moved to
Los Angeles, Calif., in 1931; engaged in the theatrical profession
and also as an opera singer 1922-1938; Democratic National
committeewoman for California 1940-1944; vice chairman of the
Democratic State central committee and chairman of the
women’s division 1940-1944; member of the national advisory
committee of the Works Progress Administration and of the State
committee of the National Youth Administration in 1939 and 1940;
member of the board of governors of the California Housing and
Planning Association in 1942 and 1943; appointed by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Voluntary Participation
Committee, Office of Civilian Defense; appointed by President Harry
S. Truman as alternate United States Delegate to the United Nations
Assembly; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth, Eightieth,
and Eighty-first Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1951); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1950, but was unsuccessful for
election to the United States Senate; lecturer and author;
appointed by President Johnson as Special Ambassador to head United
States delegation to inauguration ceremonies of President William
V.S. Tubman of Liberia in 1964; resided in New York City until her
death on June 28, 1980.
Bibliography
Douglas, Helen Gahagan. A Full Life. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1982; Denton, Sally. The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of
Helen Gahagan Douglas. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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