Richard Brooks Douglass (September 28, 1963 – May 9, 2020) was an American film producer and actor,[1][2] lawyer, businessman, and former state senator in Oklahoma.
[3] In 1990, when he was only 27, Douglass, running as a Republican, was elected as the youngest State Senator to serve in Oklahoma.
His father served as pastor of Putnam City Baptist Church and the family resided in Okarche, Oklahoma.
[1][2][4][5][6] On June 11, 2011, Douglass and his sister Leslie appeared on Huckabee to talk about how they had come to forgive their parent's killers through their Christian faith.
He received his MBA, and JD, from Oklahoma City University and his MPA, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.