Mark E. Green

Mark Green 2019

Mark E. Green (* 8. November 1964 in Jacksonville , Florida ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . In November 2018 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. There he represents the seventh district of the state of Tennessee . Before that, he was a member of the Tennessee State Senate .

Life

Green grew up in Mississippi. He graduated from West Point Military Academy and was then an officer in the US Army . After studying medicine , he served as a doctor for aviation medicine in the army. He was involved in the military operation to capture Saddam Hussein and interrogated him. He later wrote a book about this. Green left the army in 2006.

Then in 2009 Green founded the company Align MD , which recruits medical personnel for emergency departments. He also set up a foundation that runs two clinics with free health care for the poor.

politics

Green ran for the Tennessee State Senate in 2012 in the 22nd District. He had no opponent in the Republican primary. In the general election he won with 51.3% of the vote against the Democratic incumbent Tim Barnes . In 2016 he was confirmed in office. There he was most recently a member of the Committee on Trade and Labor, of which he was Vice-Chairman, and the Committee on Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources.

In May 2017, President Donald Trump proposed Green as Secretary of the Army . However, Green withdrew his candidacy after facing severe criticism for previous statements about transgender people .

Green ran for the seat in the seventh district of Tennessee in the 2018 congressional election, whose mandate holder Marsha Blackburn was a candidate for the US Senate . He was an unopposed candidate in the Republican primary . He won the general election with 66.8% against the Democratic candidate Justin Kanew, who received 32.1%. His term began on January 3, 2019.

Fonts

• Mark E. Green: A Night with Saddam . lulu.com, 2010, ISBN 978-0-557-15320-6 .

Web links

• Mark Gree at Ballotpedia
• Tennessee Senate entry

Individual evidence

1. ↑
   • Mark E. Green in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English) , accessed on April 1, 2020th
2. ↑ James Bennett: Republican Mark Green brings conservative voice to race. Retrieved December 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Dr. Mark Green for Congress. Accessed December 5, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Dr. Mark Green for Congress. Accessed December 5, 2018 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Mark Green (Tennessee). Retrieved December 4, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Senators. In: TN General Assembly. Retrieved December 4, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Mark Green withdraws as Army secretary nominee amid intense criticism over past statements. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .