1. Edith Louise Starrett Green was an American politician and educator from Oregon.
14 Facts About Edith Green
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Edith Green was born Edith Louise Starrett in Trent, South Dakota.
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Edith Green's family moved to Oregon in 1916, where she attended schools in Salem, graduating from Salem High School in 1927.
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Edith Green worked as a schoolteacher and advocate of education in 1929, married Arthur N Green in 1930, and left school to begin a family.
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In 1939 Edith Green went back to school and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon and did graduate study at Stanford University.
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Edith Green became a radio commentator and writer in the 1940s, but her interest in educational issues led her to become a lobbyist for the Oregon Education Association.
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Edith Green was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
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Edith Green was defeated in a close race by incumbent Earl T Newbry.
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In 1955 Edith Green proposed the Equal Pay Act, to ensure that men and women were paid equally for equal work.
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Edith Green helped to introduce a higher education bill that contained provisions regarding gender equity in education.
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Edith Green declined each time to turn her House seniority for junior status in the Senate.
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Edith Green returned to Portland, Oregon, and became a professor of government at Warner Pacific College.
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Edith Green was appointed to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education in 1979.
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Edith Green died on April 21,1987, in Tualatin and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Corbett, Oregon.