Mark Andrew Green

Mark Andrew Green

Mark Andrew Green (born June 1, 1960 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American politician . Between 1999 and 2007 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives . From 2007 to 2009 he was the United States Ambassador to Tanzania .

Career

Mark Green attended Abbott Pennings High School after elementary school , now the Notre Dame Academy in De Pere, Wisconsin. He then studied until 1983 at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire . After completing a law degree at the main campus of the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his admission to the bar, he began working in a large law firm in his new profession in Green Bay .

Politically, Green became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1992 and 1998 he was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly . In the 1998 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eighth constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded the previously defeated Democrat Jay W. Johnson on January 3, 1999 . Green was the only Republican to defeat a Democratic incumbent that year. After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 2007 . The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the beginning of the Iraq war occurred during this period . Green was a member of the House Internal Relations Committee since 2001 . In addition, he was now on the judicial committee . He advocated the death penalty and supported the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . He also advocated laws to strengthen families.

In 2006, Green declined to run for another candidate for Congress. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Wisconsin, where he came to 45.3 percent of the vote and thus defeated the Democrat Jim Doyle . In 2007 he was appointed US Ambassador to Tanzania by President George W. Bush . He held this post until the end of the Bush administration in 2009. Green then became a director of Malaria No More , a global effort to combat the disease.

Mark Green has been married to his wife Sue since 1995. The couple has three children.

Web links

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• Mark Andrew Green in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)