Martha Joan Douglass (February 9, 1924 — January 20, 2016) was an American political figure who served in the

Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...

. She lost in 1974 to future

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Sherrod Brown Sherrod Campbell Brown ( ; born November 9, 1952) is an American politician who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for from 1993 to 2007 and the 47t ...

. Joan Douglass died in Mansfield's independent living community The Waterford at the age of 91.

External links

Profile on the Ohio Ladies Gallery website

References

Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives Women state legislators in Ohio Politicians from Mansfield, Ohio 1924 births 2016 deaths 21st-century American women 20th-century members of the Ohio General Assembly 20th-century American women politicians {{Ohio-OHRepresentative-stub