Emily Taft Douglas

Apr 10, 1899 - Jan 28, 1994

Emily Taft Douglas was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. She served as a U.S. Representative at-large from 1945 until 1947 and was married to U.S. Senator Paul Douglas from 1931 until his death in 1976. She was the first female Democrat elected to Congress from Illinois, and her election made Illinois one of the first two states to have been represented by female House members from both parties.
She was the daughter of sculptor Lorado Taft and a distant relative of U.S. President William Howard Taft.
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