William R. Green

William Raymond Green (b. November 7, 1856 - d. June 11, 1947) was a U.S. Representative from Iowa and an associate judge on the United States Court of Claims.

Born in Colchester, Connecticut, Green attended the public schools in Malden, Illinois, and Princeton High School.He was graduated from Oberlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, in 1879.He studied law with the firm McCoy and Pratt.He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Dow City, Iowa.He moved his office to Audubon, Iowa, in 1884.He served as judge of the district court in the fifteenth judicial district of Iowa from 1894 until 1911, when he resigned.

Green was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter I. Smith.

He was reelected to the Sixty-third Congress and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from June 5, 1911, until March 31, 1928, when he resigned. He served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (Sixty-eighth through Seventieth Congresses).

President Calvin Coolidge appointed him a judge of the United States Court of Claims. Green was over 71 at the time. He served twelve years, from April 1, 1928, until May 29, 1940, when he resigned, but he was recalled and continued to serve until June 1942.

Green belonged to the Cosmos Club, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias, and the Masons.

He retired from active pursuits and resided at Bellport, New York, until his death there on June 11, 1947.

He was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

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