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Douglas, Sir James

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Sir James, 1803–77, Canadian fur trader and colonial governor, b. British Guiana (now Guyana). As a young man, he went to Canada in the service of the North West Company; soon…

Douglas, John Sholto

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, John Sholto: see Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 8th marquess of.

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Marjory Stoneman, 1890–1998, American journalist, writer, and environmentalist, b. Minneapolis, grad. Wellesley College, 1912. In 1915 she moved to Miami and began working for…

Douglas, Paul Howard

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Paul Howard, 1892–1976, U.S. Senator (1949–67), b. Salem, Mass. An economist, he joined the faculty of the Univ. of Chicago in 1920; was active as a government adviser,…

Douglas, Stephen Arnold

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813–61, American statesman, b. Brandon, Vt. The Democratic national convention at Charleston, S.C., in 1860 adopted Douglas's recommendations in a platform…

Douglas, William Orville

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, William Orville, 1898–1980, American jurist, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939–75), b. Maine, Minn. He received his law degree from Columbia in 1925 and later…

Coe, Michael Douglas

(Encyclopedia) Coe, Michael Douglas, 1929–2019, American anthropologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. Coe taught at Yale from 1960, becoming Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology in…

Engelbart, Douglas Carl

(Encyclopedia) Engelbart, Douglas Carl, 1925–2013, American engineer and inventor, b. Portland, Oreg., Ph.D Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1955. He was a radar technician in the navy during World War…

Fraser, Douglas Andrew

(Encyclopedia) Fraser, Douglas Andrew, 1916–2008, American labor leader, b. Glasgow, Scotland. His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child and settled in Detroit, where he began his…

Freeman, Douglas Southall

(Encyclopedia) Freeman, Douglas Southall Freeman, Douglas Southall sŭᵺˈôl, –əl [key], 1886–1953, American editor and…