Enid Greene

Enid Greene

Enid Greene (born June 5, 1958 in San Rafael , California ) is an American politician . Between 1995 and 1997 she represented the second constituency of the state of Utah in the US House of Representatives .

Early years

Enid Greene attended East High School in Salt Lake City until 1976 and then studied at the University of Utah until 1980 . She graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a law degree . She then worked as a lawyer for a software company and then in a law firm in Salt Lake City.

Political career

Enid Greene joined the Republican Party and became a member of the Advisory Board to Governor Norman H. Bangerter . In 1984 and 2004 she was a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions . In 1992 she lost 47% to 50% of the vote in the Congressional elections in Utah's second constituency, Karen Shepherd of the Democratic Party . In 1993 she married Joe Waldholtz, who became her campaign manager in the 1994 congressional election. Her very expensive campaign resulted in a relative majority of 46% against incumbent Karen Shepherd, who got 36% of the vote. This enabled Enid Greene to move into Congress on January 3, 1995 .

During her two-year tenure, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child during her tenure as the second Congresswoman after Yvonne Brathwaite Burke . In the meantime, it was found that her husband had embezzled and embezzled campaign funds. He disappeared for six days in November 1995 before he turned himself in to the authorities. Enid Greene then filed for divorce. Even so, public pressure grew on her; her party urged her not to run again in 1996. Her husband was given a suspended sentence during which he was sentenced to a new offense, this time check fraud.

Another résumé

Enid Greene's career as a politician suffered a major setback as a result of these incidents. Only gradually was she able to gain a foothold in politics. In 2004 she ran unsuccessfully for her party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Utah. In 2007, she became acting head of the Republican Party in Utah for a few months.

Web links

• Enid Greene in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)