Emily Taft Douglas (April 19 1899 – January 28 1994) was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. She served as a U.S. Representative at-large from 1945 until 1947 and was married to U.S. Senator Paul Douglas from 1931 until his death in 1976. She was the first female Democrat elected to Congress from Illinois and her election made Illinois one of the first two states (the other was California) to have been represented by female House members from both parties.
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