George Greene (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian pastoralist, farmer and politician
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Place of Birth: Collon, Leinster, Ireland
About George Greene (Australian politician)
- George Henry Greene (20 July 1838 – 22 December 1911) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in Collon in County Louth to farmer William Pomeroy Greene and Anne Griffith.
- In 1842 the family moved to Melbourne, where William Greene established the Woodlands estate.
- Greene studied at the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, and was subsequently a pastoralist on the Murray River.
- In 1870 he married Ellen Elizabeth Crawford, with whom he had five children.
- In 1875, he sold his share in his properties and embarked on a two-year world tour.
- On his return Greene bought Iandra, a 32,600 acre (13,193 ha) estate near Grenfell, in 1878 and began grazing and wheat-growing. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Grenfell.
- Defeated in 1891, he returned in 1894 but his election was invalidated a few months later.
- Re-elected again in 1895, he retired in 1898.
- From 1899 to 1911 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
- In 1893 he had been Commissioner of the Chicago Exposition.
- Greene died at Grenfell in 1911.
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