Frank L. Greene, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank L. Greene

American politician

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1870

Place of Birth: St. Albans, Vermont, United States

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1930

Profession: politician, editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Frank L. Greene

  • Frank Lester Greene (February 10, 1870 – December 17, 1930) was a Vermont newspaper editor and militia officer.
  • He is most notable for his service as a United States Representative and Senator. A native of St.
  • Albans, Vermont, he was educated in St.
  • Albans and Cleveland, Ohio, and began working as a teenager to help support his family after his father became disabled.
  • He became a clerk for the Central Vermont Railway, and later became a journalist and editor of the St.
  • Albans Messenger newspaper.
  • Greene also served in the militia; enlisting as a private, by the time of the Spanish–American War he was a company commander with the rank of captain.
  • He later served on the military staff of Governor Edward Curtis Smith, with the rank of colonel; Smith had been his employer at the Central Vermont Railway and St.
  • Albans Messenger. Long active in politics and government as a Republican, in 1912 he won a special election to complete the term of Congressman David J.
  • Foster, who had died.
  • He was reelected to a full term in November 1912, and won reelection to four more terms.
  • In 1922, Greene was election to the United States Senate.
  • He was reelected in 1928, and served until his death.
  • In 1924, Greene was wounded when Prohibition agents attempting to apprehend the owners of a Washington, DC moonshine still accidentally shot him in the head.
  • Greene never fully recovered, and was left partly paralyzed.
  • He died as the result of surgical complications while being treated for a hernia, and was buried in St.
  • Albans.

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