William R. Green

William Raymond Green ( born November 7, 1856 in Colchester, Connecticut, † June 11, 1947 in Bellport, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1911 and 1928 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Green attended the public schools in Malden (Illinois ) and then the Princeton High School, also in Illinois. In 1879 he graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1882 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Dow City ( Iowa). In 1884, Green moved to Audubon, Iowa. He was 1894-1911 Judge in the 15th Judicial District. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Congressman Walter I. Smith in 1911, Green was at the election due in the ninth constituency of Iowa as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. Green took up his new mandate on June 5, 1911. After he was confirmed in each case at the following regular elections, he could remain until his resignation on March 31, 1928 in Congress. He was from 1923 to 1927 Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. During his time in Congress and the First World War falls. Between 1913 and 1920 there the 16th, the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and adopted.

Greens resignation in March 1928 was due to his appointment to a federal judgeship on the Court of Claims. This post he held between 1 April 1928 to June 1942. Afterwards, he withdrew into retirement. William Green died on 11 June 1947 in Bellport at the age of 90 years.