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GREEN, Edith Starrett, a Representative from Oregon; born Edith Louise Starrett, January
17, 1910, in Trent, Moody County, S.Dak.; moved with her parents to Oregon in
1916; attended schools in Salem, Oreg., and Willamette University, 1927-1929;
was graduated from the University of Oregon, 1939; taught school in Salem,
Oreg., 1930-1941; radio work, 1943-1947; director of public relations, Oregon
Education Associations; Democratic candidate for secretary of State of Oregon
in 1952; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968,
and served as chairman of State delegation in 1960 and 1968; United States
delegate to Interparliamentary conference in Switzerland in 1958; congressional
delegate to NATO conference in London in 1959; delegate, UNESCO General
Conference, 1964 and 1966; member, Presidential Commission on Status of Women;
elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1955; until her resignation December 31,
1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress;
professor of government at Warner Pacific College; appointed to Oregon Board of
Higher Education in 1979; was a resident of Portland, Oreg. until her death on
April 21, 1987.
BibliographyGreen, Edith. Fears and Fallacies: Equal Opportunities in
the 1970s. Ann Arbor: Graduate School of Business Administration,
University of Michigan, 1975; Edith Starrett Green in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006.
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