Green, William R.

GREEN

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 12/7/2004 at 07:05:54

William Raymond Green
Of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie county, representative from the Ninth district composed of the counties of Adair, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie and Shelby, was born at Colchester, Connecticut, November 7, 1856; received a high school education at Princeton, Ill., and graduated at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, in 1879 in the classical course; read law in the office of McCoy and Pratt, Chicago, and was admitted to practice at Ottawa, Illinois, in 1882; began the practice of law at Dow City, Iowa; later moved to Council Bluffs and from there to Audubon in the fall of 1886; was elected judge of the district court in 1894, and re-elected in 1898, 1902, 1906 and 1910; and was elected representative in congress at the special election held June 5, 1911, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Hon. Walter I. Smith. He was re-elected to the sixty-third, sixty-fourth, sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh congresses. A republican in politics.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of Representatives in Congress, pg. 320

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)