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The Lewis Williams Douglas House was built in 1923 and is located at 815 E. Orangewood Ave. in Phoenix, Az. The house is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 ref. 85000188.
Lewis Williams Douglas (1894–1974) Non-career appointee. State of Residence: Arizona. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (United Kingdom) Appointed: March 6, 1947. Presentation of Credentials: March 25, 1947. Termination of Mission: Left post on November 16, 1950.
Lewis Williams Douglas (July 2, 1894 – March 7, 1974) was an American politician, diplomat, businessman and academic. Douglas, Born in Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA, was the son of James Douglas, Jr., a mining executive employed by the Phelps Dodge Company, and his wife Josephine "Josalee" Williams Douglas.
Lewis W. Douglas was a businessman, Democratic politician, philanthropist, and diplomat. He served in the Arizona State Legislature, 1922-1925; U.S. House of Representatives, 1927-1933; U.S. Budget Director, 1933-1934; President of McGill University, 1938-1939; head of U.S. War Shipping Administration, 1942-1944; and Ambassador to Great Britain
DOUGLAS, Lewis Williams, a Representative from Arizona; born in Bisbee, Cochise County, Ariz., July 2, 1894; attended the public schools and Montclair (N.J.) Academy; was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1916; attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1916; commissioned as a second lieutenant on August 15, 1917, and assigned to the Three Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment ...
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life.
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his...
