Paul Howard Douglas

Paul Howard Douglas (1892–1976) was an American economist and Democratic politician who served as a United States Senator from Illinois from 1949 to 1967. He is best known for co-authoring the Cobb-Douglas production function in 1928, a foundational economic model still widely used today, and for his legislative work on civil rights, truth-in-lending laws, and conservation. He was also a professor of economics at the University of Chicago from 1920 to 1949 and served as a Marine Corps officer during World War II.