Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980

Person

Biographical:

Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980) began her professional career on the Broadway stage and was deemed a "star" at age twenty-two. By the 1930s, she left the Northeast and moved to California with her husband, Hollywood actor Melvyn Douglas. Although she made only one movie herself--the science fiction film, She--she soon found herself immersed in politics. She worked with the Farm Security Administration and later was elected Democratic National Committeewoman from California. In 1944, she was elected as the representative of California's Fourteenth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was successfully reelected to this position in 1946 and 1948. A tireless New Deal Democrat, Douglas was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and served as an alternate delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations. In 1950, she opposed Richard M. Nixon in the general election for the U.S. Senate. The campaign was especially brutal with the Republicans quite "liberal" in their charges that Douglas was a communist. Nixon easily won the election. Though Douglas never entered the political fray again, she remained a tireless public speaker and activist.

Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:

Request for Congressional Support: Screen Cartoonist Union Local 852 urges Congresswoman Helen G. Douglas to speak out against contempt citations, 1947-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Item — Box 74: Series CAC_CC_014_3_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 15

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_3.2_74_15_0038

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80th (1947-1949)

Dates: 1947-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 80th Congress / 80th and 81st Congresses, General Files / Un-American Activities Committee, 1949

Request for Copies of Congresswoman's Speeches in World War II, 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0025

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79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Copies of 'Remarks' on the Negro Soldier, 1946-03-18

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0020

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-03-18

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Copies of The Negro Soldier Speech by Congresswoman Douglas, 1946-04-24

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0046

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-04-24

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Copy of Remarks on The Negro Soldier, 1946-02-01

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0077

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-02-01

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Information on Negro Service Personnel in WWII, 1946-05-13

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0060

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-05-13

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Material on the Negro Soldier: Correspondence from Mrs. Mamie Gladdish, 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0018

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Multiple Copies of Report on Negra and The War, 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0006

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Operations of Negro Units in World War II, 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0073

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

Request for Speech on Negro Soldiers in WWII, 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Item — Box 23: Series CAC_CC_014_2_0000_0000_0000, Folder: 1

Identifier: CAC_CC_014_2.2_23_1_0078

Abstract

79th (1945-1947)

Dates: 1946-01-01 - 1947-12-31

Found in: Carl Albert Center Congressional and Political Collections / Helen Gahagan Douglas Collection / 79th Congress / General Files / Negro Soldiers: Correspondence and Data, March 11-May, 1947

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