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A Concurrent Resolution On the Death of the Honorable Lewis W. Douglas

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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1019

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

ON THE DEATH OF THE HONORABLE LEWIS W. DOUGLAS.

Arizona and this Legislature is saddened by the death of former United States Ambassador to Great Britain Lewis W. Douglas of Tucson on March 7, 1974, at the age of seventy-nine.

The Honorable Mr. Douglas, a United States Congressman from Arizona from 1927 to 1933, also was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives' Sixth Legislature from 1923 through 1925.

Prominent in banking and investment pursuits in this state, he was born July 2, I 894, in Bisbee, Arizona. He was graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts in 19 I 6 and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge.

During World War I he served overseas as assistant G-3 staff, Ninety-first Division until discharged in 1919. He was cited by General Pershing during the Argonne offensive and decorated with the Croix de Guerre by the Belgian government during the Lys-Escault offensive.

Mr. Douglas engaged in mining and general business in Arizona until elected to the Arizona House of Representatives, where he served on House committees including Public Institutions, as chairman, Printing and Clerks, Labor and County and County Affairs. He was elected to the Seven tie th and three succeeding Congresses and resigned to become Director of the Budget by appointment of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 7, 1933.

Filed in the Office of the Secretary of State-May 16, 1974