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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Joseph DOUGLASS
(1873-1939)
DOUGLASS, John Joseph, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in East Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., February 9, 1873; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Boston College in 1893, and from the law department
of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1896; was admitted
to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Boston; member of the
State house of representatives in 1899, 1900, 1906, and again in
1913; delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention in
1917 and 1918; author and playwright; delegate to the Democratic
National Conventions in 1928 and 1932; elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1925-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Education
(Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law;
served as commissioner of penal institutions of Boston from 1935
until his death in West Roxbury, Suffolk County, Mass., April 5,
1939; interment in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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