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Biography of Edith Starrett Green
Name: Edith Starrett Green
Birth Date: January 17, 1910
Death Date: 1987
Place of Birth: Trent, South Dakota, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: congresswoman, politician, women's rights activist
Edith Starrett Green
A U.S. congresswoman from Oregon from 1954 to 1974, Edith Starrett Green (1910-1987) worked vigorously for improved education and educational opportunity and for women's rights.Edith Starrett Green was born January 17, 1910, in Trent, South Dakota, to James and Julia Starrett, who soon moved to Oregon. By 1930 she began a teaching career which was interrupted when she married businessman Arthur N. Green and had a family.Although a daughter of two school teachers, Edith Starrett had preferred to be a lawyer or engineer. However, others persuaded her to pursue a more conventional woman's profession. She earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon in 1939 and did graduate work at Stanford University. In the 1940s she was a free-lance writer and radio commentator, but her interest in education continued and she served as a state lobbyist for education groups.A life-long Democrat, she first ran for political office in 1952 and, although she lost, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Equal Pay Act in 1963, but never supported the Equal Rights Amendment. Some even perceived a contradiction in her support of various educational programs while deploring the federal government's role in administering them. Yet Green was always against a too-powerful federal government, noting that Oregonians best knew their education problems.Green retired to her Oregon home in 1975, having served in the House for 20 years and through four different presidential administrations. She continued her interest in education, serving as a member of several boards of directors and continuing to speak out against officials who gave politics a bad name. Associated Events Equal Pay Act of 1963 Further Reading Biographical material for Edith Green may be found in Hope Chamberlain's A Minority of Members, Women in the U.S. Congress (1973) and in Esther Stineman's American Political Women (1980). Additional analysis of her career and voting record are in Ralph Nader Citizens Look at Congress Project (1972).
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