John J. Douglass

John Joseph Douglass (born February 9, 1873 in East Boston , Massachusetts , †  April 5, 1939 in West Roxbury , Massachusetts) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1935 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Douglass attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1893 the Boston College . After a subsequent law degree at Georgetown University and his admission to the bar in 1897, he began to work in this profession in Boston. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1899 and 1913 he sat several times as a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . In 1917 and 1918 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the state constitution . In the meantime he also appeared as an author. In 1928 and 1932 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions .

In the 1924 congressional election , Douglass was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Peter Francis Tague on March 4, 1925 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five terms in Congress by January 3, 1935 . Since 1933 he represented the eleventh district of his state there as the successor to George H. Tinkham . Also since 1933, the first of the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed in Congress. From 1931 to 1935 Douglass was chairman of the education committee. In 1934 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, John Douglass practiced again as a lawyer. From 1935 until his death he was the commissioner of the city of Boston for the local penal institutions. He died in West Roxbury on April 5, 1939.

Web links

• John J. Douglass in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John J. Douglass in the database of Find a Grave (English)