Warren Green

Warren Everett Green ( born March 10, 1869 Jackson County, Wisconsin, † April 27, 1945 in Watertown, South Dakota ) was an American politician and from 1931 to 1933 the 13th Governor of South Dakota.

Early years

At the age of eleven years, Warren Green moved with his parents in the Hamlin County in what was then Dakota Territory. In 1895 he started in the vicinity of the place Hazel to work as a farmer. He soon became a prominent citizen of his home town. For twelve years he was chairman of the school board in his home district. Green was a member of the Republican Party and was first elected in 1906 in the Senate of South Dakota. Between 1913 and 1919 he was a member of the Department of Corrections ( Department of Corrections ). In the years 1922 and 1924 he was back in the state Senate. In 1930, Green was elected Governor of South Dakota.

Governor of South Dakota

Warren Green's two-year term began on January 6, 1931. Complete His reign was overshadowed by the global economic crisis and its consequences. This also meant in South Dakota bank failures, economic problems and rising unemployment. The farmers already hard-hit by the crisis also had to deal with a severe drought and a plague of locusts. This large parts of the crop were destroyed and the need to rise. Therefore, it was a priority of the governor, to meet the farmers by offering concessions. Such measures had already been passed by his predecessor William J. Bulow in the ways.

Due to the economic crisis, the national debt had risen sharply and the governor tried by spending cuts to solve the problem. Among other things, the salaries were reduced by 10 to 20% in the public sector. The measures were the problems ultimately did not eliminate, but slightly soften. As in the rest of the country the United States, the consequences of the Great Depression were overcome only through the New Deal policies of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt mid-1930s. Warren Green competed in 1932 for his re-election, but was defeated by Democrat Thomas Berry.

Further CV

After the end of his tenure, Green moved back to his farm after Hazel. In 1936 he was Head of the Delegation of South Dakota at the Republican National Convention. Warren Green died in April 1945. He was married to Elizabeth Jane Parliament, with whom he had four children.

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