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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonEdith Starrett GREEN
(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; “Edith Starrett
Green” in Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under
the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the
Office of History & Preservation, U. S. House of
Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2006.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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