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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Douglass attended the public schools of his home and then to 1893 Boston College. After a subsequent law degree from Georgetown University and his 1897 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1899 and 1913 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the years 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 appearance. In the years 1928 and 1932, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1924, Douglass became the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peter Francis Tague on March 4, 1925. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1935 five legislative sessions. Since 1933, he represented there as a successor to George H. Tinkham the eleventh district of his state. Also since 1933, the first of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress. From 1931 to 1935 Douglass was Chairman of the Education Committee. In 1934, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Douglass again practiced as a lawyer. Since 1935 until his death he was commissioner of the city of Boston for the local prisons. He died on April 5, 1939 in West Roxbury.