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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Edith Green |
Address | Portland, Oregon , United States |
Email | None |
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January 17, 1910
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Died | April 21, 1987
(77 years)
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Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
Last Modifed | RBH Feb 23, 2024 06:24pm |
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Info | 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, 1975; 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.
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