{{short description|American politician}} {{for-multi|the Saskatchewan politician|Albert B. Douglas|the Prince Edward Island politician|Albert E. Douglas}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000449. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> {{Infobox officeholder | name = Albert Douglas | image = Albert Douglas.png | state = Ohio | district = 11th | party = Republican | term_start = March 4, 1907 | term_end = March 3, 1911 | preceded = Charles H. Grosvenor | succeeded = Horatio C. Claypool | birth_date = April 25, 1852 | birth_place = Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1935|3|14|1852|4|25}} | death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S. | spouse = }}
'''Albert Douglas''' (April 25, 1852 – March 14, 1935) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1907 to 1911.
==Biography == Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, Douglas attended the public schools of Chillicothe and a preparatory school. He graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1872 and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Chillicothe, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney of Ross County 1877–1881. Presidential elector in 1896 for McKinley/Hobart.<ref>Taylor 1899 : vol. 2, 136</ref>
Douglas was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1911). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress, and resumed the practice of law in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to represent the United States at the centennial of the independence of Peru in 1921. He retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death in that city on March 14, 1935. He was interred in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA.
==Sources== {{reflist}} {{CongBio|D000449}} *{{cite book |title=Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... |first1=William Alexander |last1=Taylor |first2=Aubrey Clarence |last2=Taylor |year=1899 |publisher=State of Ohio |volume=2 |ref=taylor1899|page=136 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ}}
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} * {{Find a Grave|6895309|accessdate=September 3, 2010}}
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