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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonGREEN, Edith Starrett
(1910—1987)
GREEN, Edith Starrett, a Representative from Oregon; born Edith Louise Starrett, January 17, 1910, in Trent, Moody County, S.Dak.; moved with her parents to Oregon in 1916; attended schools in Salem, Oreg., and Willamette University, 1927-1929; was graduated from the University of Oregon, 1939; taught school in Salem, Oreg., 1930-1941; radio work, 1943-1947; director of public relations, Oregon Education Associations; Democratic candidate for secretary of State of Oregon in 1952; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968, and served as chairman of State delegation in 1960 and 1968; United States delegate to Interparliamentary conference in Switzerland in 1958; congressional delegate to NATO conference in London in 1959; delegate, UNESCO General Conference, 1964 and 1966; member, Presidential Commission on Status of Women; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955; until her resignation December 31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; professor of government at Warner Pacific College; appointed to Oregon Board of Higher Education in 1979; was a resident of Portland, Oreg. until her death on April 21, 1987.
Bibliography
Green, Edith. Fears and Fallacies: Equal Opportunities in the 1970’s
. Ann Arbor: Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1975; Rosenberg-Dishman, Marie C. Barovic. “Women in Politics: A Comparative Study of Congresswomen Edith Green and Julia Butler Hansen.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1973.
“Edith Starrett Green” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Gates, Robert Edwin, Jr. “The Development of Title IX of The Educational Amendments of 1972 and its Current Application to Institutional Athletic Programs.” Ph.D. diss., University of Louisville, 1984.
Green, Edith Starrett. “Education and the Public Good: The Federal Role in Education.” In The Challenge to Education in a Changing World,
by Walter P. Reuther. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.
———. Fears and Fallacies: Equal Opportunities in the 1970’s.
Ann Arbor: Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1975.
Kinavey, William Howard, Jr. “Women in collegiate sports: The struggle for equity since the 1972 Title IX Educational Amendment.” D.Ed. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1998.
Rosenberg-Dishman, Marie C. Barovic. “Women in Politics: A Comparative Study of Congresswomen Edith Green and Julia Butler Hansen.” Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1973.
Ross, Naomi V. “Congresswoman Edith Green on Federal Aid to Schools and Colleges.” D.Ed. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1980.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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