Paul F. Douglass

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Paul Franklin Douglass (born November 7, 1904 in Corinth , New York , † August 7, 1988 in Rutland , Vermont ) was an American lawyer , political scientist , Methodist pastor , journalist and politician ( Republicans ). He was president of the American University .

Life

Douglass attended Glens Falls High School in Glens Falls, New York until 1922 . He then studied at Wesleyan University (AB) in Middletown, Connecticut) and the University of Cincinnati (AM, Ph.D. and LL.B. ) in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was a Taft fellow in government and public law, as well as by 1931 to 1933 economics and law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . 1930/31 he was director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Law Study in Ohio. He was admitted to the Vermont , Washington, DC, and US Supreme Court bar. Douglas was u. a. Member of the American Bar Association .

In addition to his legal work, he was editor of the Cincinnati Post from 1926 to 1928 and of the Christian Science Monitor from 1926 to 1928 . He was ordained in 1933 ; since then he has served as a pastor in the Methodist Church in Poultney, Vermont. From 1933 to 1943 he was also a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives in Montpelier, Vermont. There he was Chairman of the Committee on Education and the Committee on Corporations and Franchises as well as a member of the Committee on Ways and Means.

From 1941 to 1951 he was President of the American University in Washington, DC Douglas, a doctorate in political science, worked in the field of international relations and was a member of the American Political Science Association . In 1952 he became an advisor to South Korean President Syngman Rhee and then director of the Rollins College Center for Practical Politics in Winter Park, Florida. Douglass was the author of several books and the General Counsel of the League of Postmasters in Washington, DC

Awards

  • 1973: Rollins Declaration of Honor

Fonts (selection)

  • God among the Germans (1935)
  • Wesleys at Oxford (1953)
  • Six Upon the World (1954)
  • Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More (1963)

literature

  • George P. Bush (Ed.): Directory of the American Political Science Association . 3rd ed., The American Political Science Association, New York 1953, p. 46.
  • Robert C. Cook (Ed.): Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States . 15th ed., The Robert C. Cook Co., New York 1952, p. 348.
  • Matthew Simpson, Carl F. Price, Clinton T. Howell (Eds.): Prominent Personalities in American Methodism . Lowrey Press, Birmingham, Alabama 1945, p. 98.

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personal data
SURNAME Douglass, Paul F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglass, Paul Franklin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, political scientist, pastor, journalist, and politician (Republicans)
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Corinth , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1988
Place of death Rutland , Vermont