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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWilliam Stedman GREENE
(1841-1924)
GREENE, William Stedman, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Tremont, Tazewell
County, Ill., April 28, 1841; moved with his parents to Fall River,
Mass., in 1844; attended the public schools; engaged in the real
estate and insurance business; member of the common council
1876-1879, and served as president of that body 1877-1879; mayor of
Fall River in 1880; reelected mayor in 1881, but resigned the same
year; appointed postmaster of Fall River on March 22, 1881, and
served until March 30, 1885; again served as mayor 1886 and
1895-1897; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1898;
general superintendent of State prisons 1888-1893; appointed
postmaster of Fall River and served from March 9, to July 1, 1898,
when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Simpkins;
reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the twelve succeeding
Congresses and served from May 31, 1898, until his death at Fall
River, Mass., September 22, 1924; chairman, Committee on
Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fifty-eighth Congress),
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Sixtieth, Sixty-first,
and Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses); interment in Oak
Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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