Edith Green

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 the Charbonneau District of Wilsonville, Oreg. Until her death on April 21, 1987. Interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Corbett, Multnomah County, Oregon.