Paul Douglas

Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 – September 24, 1976) was an American politician and Georgist economist. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career, he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Maine, Douglas graduated from Bowdoin College and Columbia University.

He served as a professor of economics at several schools, most notably the University of Chicago, and earned a reputation as a reformer while a member of the Chicago City Council (1939–1942). During World War II he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and becoming known as a war hero. He first married Dorothy Wolff in 1915. They had four children.

He divorced her in 1930 and a year later married Emily Taft, daughter of sculptor Lorado Taft; Emily later served one term as U.S. representative from Illinois's at-large congressional district.