| Office1: | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts |
| Term Start1: | March 4, 1925 |
| Term End1: | January 3, 1935 |
| Predecessor1: | Peter Francis Tague |
| Successor1: | John Patrick Higgins |
| Constituency1: | 10th district (1925–33) 11th district (1933–35) |
| Order5: | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| Term Start5: | 1899 |
| Term End5: | 1900 |
| Office6: | Delegate to the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention |
| Term Start6: | June 6, 1917 |
| Term End6: | August 13, 1919 |
| Order7: | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Second Suffolk District Ward 2 Boston |
| Term Start7: | 1906 |
| Term End7: | 1906 |
| Order8: | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| Term Start8: | 1913 |
| Term End8: | 1913 |
| Birth Name: | John Joseph Douglass |
| Birth Date: | 9 February 1873 |
| Birth Place: | East Boston, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | West Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| Restingplace: | St. Joseph Cemetery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Alma Mater: | Boston College Georgetown University |
John Joseph Douglass (February 9, 1873 – April 5, 1939) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
He was born in East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1873. Douglass graduated from Boston College in 1893 and from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Boston.
Douglass was a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives in 1899, 1900, 1906, and again in 1913. Douglass was delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1917 and 1918; author and playwright; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1928 and 1932. Douglass was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925 – January 3, 1935); chairman, House Committee on Education (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses). Douglass was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934. Douglass resumed the practice of law; served as commissioner of penal institutions of Boston from 1935 until his death in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1939.
Douglass is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery. Survived by two sons; Paul Joseph Douglass [Manhasset, NY] and John Joseph Douglass [Newark, DE]
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