George Woodward Greene

George Woodward Greene ( born July 4, 1831 in Mount Hope, New York, † July 21, 1895 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1869 and 1870, the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Woodward Greene pursued classical classical studies and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He taught at a school. Greene studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1860 and then began practicing in Goshen. He was School Commissioner in Orange County. Between 1861 and 1864 he was a judge at the Orange County Court Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1868 for the 41st Congress Greene was in the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Van Wyck on March 4, 1869. Van Wyck, however, contested the election because of an error in the login is successful, so that Greene resigned from Congress after 17 February 1870.

Between 1885 and 1888 Greene sat in the New York State Assembly. He died on July 21, 1895 in New York City and was buried in the " The Plains " Cemetery in Otisville.