Background
Kingman Douglass was born April 16, 1896, in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of William Angus Douglas Senior and Eliza Kingman.
Kingman Douglass was born April 16, 1896, in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of William Angus Douglas Senior and Eliza Kingman.
He was educated at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania (class of 1914) and Yale University (class of 1918).
He was a deputy director of Central Intelligence from March 1946 to July 1946. During World War I, Kingman Douglass served as a pilot with the 91st Aeronautical Squadron, engaged in aerial observation and photographic intelligence. As such he was commended for bravery in action on October 31, 1918.
On December 16, 1922, Kingman Douglass married Helen Field James, the daughter of Howard James and Sophie Ayers.
The couple had three sons: Abner Kingman Douglass, Howard James Douglass and William Angus Douglass. They were later divorced.
Douglass went into military service in World World War II: serving as the senior United States Army Air Corps intelligence liaison officer assigned to the British Air Ministry and in the Allied Intelligence Group in the Pacific Theater. Douglass served as Assistant Director, Current Intelligence, of the Central Intelligence Agency, from, January 1951 through July 1952.
Foreign a time the Douglasses lived at Mount Gordon Farm in Middleburg, Virginia, where Adele was photographed for Life magazine in March 1961.
Later, Douglass lived at 41 Biltmore Estates, Phoenix, Arizona.