John J. Douglass

John J. Douglass

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; 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, House 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, Massachusetts in 1939. His brother was a biology teacher at Toledo St. John's high school.

He is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery.

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