William O. Douglas AKA William Orville Douglas Born: 16-Oct-1898 Birthplace: Maine, MN Died: 19-Jan-1980 Location of death: Washington, DC Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Gender: Male Religion: Presbyterian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Judge Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-75 Father: William (d. 1904) Mother: Julia Bickford Wife: Mildred Riddle (m. 1923, div. 1953) Daughter: Mildred (with Riddle) Son: William, Jr. (with Riddle) Wife: Mercedes Hester Davidson (m. 1954, div. 1963) Wife: Joan Martin (m. 1963, div. 1965) Wife: Cathleen Heffernan (m. 1965, until his death)
University: Whitman College, Whitman, WA (1920) Law School: Columbia Law School (1925)
US Supreme Court Justice (1939-75) SEC Chairman (1937-39) Freemasonry United World Federalists Sierra Club Board of Directors (1960-62) Stroke 31-Dec-1974 (severe) Risk Factors: Polio, Pacemaker
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 11-Oct-1937, DETAILS: SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas
Author of books:
Of Men and Mountains (1950) Strange Lands and Friendly People (1951, travelogue) Beyond the High Himalayas (1952) North from Malaya (1953) We the Judges (1955) Russian Journey (1956) The Right of the People (1958, lectures) My Wilderness: The Pacific West (1960) Mr. Lincoln and the Negroes (1963) A Wilderness Bill of Rights (1965) Towards a Global Federation (1968) Points of Rebellion (1969) Holocaust or Hemispheric Cooperation (1970) Go East, Young Man (1974, memoir) The Court Years, 1935-75 (1980, memoir)
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