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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaRobert Alexis (Lex) GREEN
(1892-1973)
GREEN, Robert Alexis
(Lex), a Representative from Florida; born near Lake Butler,
Bradford County (now Union County), Fla., February 10, 1892;
attended the rural schools; commenced teaching in Liberty Public
School at the age of 16; was graduated from the high school at Lake
Butler in 1913; messenger in the State house of representatives
1913-1915; assistant chief clerk of the State house of
representatives 1915-1917 and chief clerk in 1917 and 1918;
University of Florida at Gainesville, B.S., 1916; studied
accounting and business administration at Howard University;
principal of Suwannee High School in 1916 and 1917; vice president
of the Florida Educational Association in 1918; member of the State
house of representatives 1918-1920, serving as speaker pro tempore
in 1918; studied law at Yale University; was admitted to the bar in
1921 and commenced practice in Starke, Fla; elected judge of
Bradford County, Fla., in 1921 and served until 1924, when he
resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-ninth Congress; reelected to the nine succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his resignation on
November 25, 1944, to enter the United States Navy; chairman,
Committee on Territories (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth
Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944 to the
Seventy-ninth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the
Florida gubernatorial nomination; served as a lieutenant commander
in the United States Navy from November 25, 1944, to November 2,
1945; resumed the practice of law at Starke, Fla., and served as
county prosecuting attorney and as city attorney for the city of
Starke; member, Democratic Executive committee, Bradford County,
and State Democratic Executive committee; died February 9, 1973, in
Gainesville, Fla.; interment in New River Cemetery in Bradford
County near the community of New River.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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