Bill Green (New York politician)

Sedgwick William " Bill" Green ( born October 16, 1929 in New York City; † October 14, 2002 ) was an American politician. Between 1978 and 1993 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1946, Bill Green graduated from the Horace Mann High School in Riverdale. Then he studied until 1950 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and his 1953 was admitted to the bar he began in 1955 to work in this profession. Between 1953 and 1955 he served in the United States Army. In 1955 and 1956 he was a legal assistant of Federal Judge George Thomas Washington federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. From 1961 to 1964, Green Advisor to the New York Committee Joint Legislative Committee on Housing and Urban Development. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1965 and 1968 he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly. From 1970 to 1977 he was Regional Head ( Regional Administrator ) of the Federal Building.

Following the resignation of Mr Ed Koch, who was elected mayor of New York, Green was at the due election for the 18th seat of his state as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 14 February 1978. After seven elections he could remain until January 3, 1993 at the Congress. In 1992 he was not re-affirmed. Two years later, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial elections in New York State. Bill Green died on 14 October 2002 from liver cancer.