James C. Green

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order = 28^th
office = Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
term_start = 1977
term_end = 1985
governor = James B. Hunt, Jr.
predecessor = James B. Hunt, Jr.
successor = Robert B. Jordan, III
title2 = Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
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term_start2 = 1961
term_end2 = 1976
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title3 = Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives
term_start3 = 1975
term_end3 = 1976
predecessor3 = James E. Ramsey
successor3 = Carl J. Stewart, Jr.
birth_date = 1922
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death_place = Bladen County Hospital, Elizabethtown, North Carolina, USA
restingplace = Clarkton Cemetery, Clarkton, North Carolina, USA
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James C. (Jimmy) Green (1922-2000) was a North Carolina politician who served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1975-1976) and as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina (1977-1985).

Political career

Green served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1961 through 1976. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1976 after defeating Howard Nathaniel Lee in a Democratic primary runoff. In 1980, after a change to the North Carolina Constitution, Green became the first Lt. Governor elected to a second term. He defeated fellow former House Speaker Carl J. Stewart, Jr. in the 1980 Democratic primary, and then Republican Bill Cobey in the general election.

Green was charged in 1983 with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but he was acquitted. The next year, he ran for Governor of North Carolina but finished fifth in the Democratic primary.

Later life and death

He was convicted of income tax fraud in 1997 and was sentenced to 33 months of house arrest, the scandal was in connection with a multimillion-dollar tobacco fraud scheme. [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Before Black | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/hyman_foundation/story/542907.html | work =The News Observer | pages = | accessdate = 2008-10-03 | language = ]

He died in hospital at Elizabethtown, North Carolina in 2000.

References

External links

* [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19423 Details] at OurCampaigns.com
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green5.html Mention] at The Political Graveyard