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Edith Green
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Oregon's 3rd district
In office
January 3, 1955 – December 31, 1974
Preceded byHomer D. Angell
Succeeded byRobert B. Duncan
Personal details
Born
Edith Louise Starrett

(1910-01-17)January 17, 1910
Trent, South Dakota, U.S.
DiedApril 21, 1987(1987-04-21) (aged 77)
Tualatin, Oregon, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseArthur Green (1933–1963)
EducationWillamette University
University of Oregon (BA)
Stanford University

Edith Louise Starrett Green (January 17, 1910 – April 21, 1987) was an American politician and educator from Oregon. She was the second Oregonian woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served a total of ten terms, from 1955 to 1974, as a Democrat.

Green advanced women's issues, education, library support and social reform; she played an instrumental role in passing the 1972 Equal Opportunity in Education Act, better known as Title IX.[1]

  1. ^ Suk, Julie Chi-hye (2020). We the women : the unstoppable mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-5107-5591-8. OCLC 1126670619.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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