Robert A. Green

Robert A. Green

Robert Alexis "Lex" Green (born February 10, 1892 in Lake Butler , Union County , Florida , †  February 9, 1973 in Gainesville , Florida) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1944 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Green attended the public schools in his home country and began to work as a teacher at the Liberty Public School himself at the age of 16 . In 1913 he graduated from Lake Butler High School. From 1913 to 1915 he was employed as a messenger in the Florida House of Representatives . After that he was deputy secretary until 1917 and then actual secretary until 1918. At the same time he studied until 1916 at the University of Florida and then at Howard University , where he took the subjects of accounting and economics. In 1916 and 1917 he was also a teacher at Suwannee High School .

Politically, Green was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1918 to 1920 he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives, of which he was president in 1918. After a subsequent law degree at Yale University and his admission to the bar in 1921, he began to work in his new profession in Starke . From 1921 to 1924 he was also a district judge in Bradford County . In the 1924 congressional elections , Green was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 2nd Florida constituency, where he succeeded Frank Clark on March 4, 1925 . After nine re-elections, he was able to complete almost ten legislative terms in Congress until his resignation on November 25, 1944 . From 1943 he represented the then newly created sixth district in Congress. During his tenure in the House of Representatives, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed there in the 1930s . Since 1941, the work of Congress has also been shaped by the events of World War II . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments to the Constitution were passed. From 1933 until his resignation in 1944, Green chaired the committee that dealt with the administration of the US territories.

In 1944 Green decided not to run again. He did not even wait for the regular end of his current legislative period on January 3, 1945, but resigned his mandate on November 25, 1944. Instead of another candidacy, he sought unsuccessfully to nominate his party for the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Florida: In the primary runoff, he was defeated by Millard F. Caldwell . Between November 1944 and November 1945, he served in the final stages of World War II as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy . After the war he worked again as a lawyer in Starke. He also became a district attorney and legal representative for the city of Starke in his home country. Robert Green has served on the board of directors of the Democratic Party at the state level and in Bradford County. He died in Gainesville on February 9, 1973.

Web links

• Robert A. Green in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert A. Green in the database of Find a Grave (English)