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Theodore Francis Green

Theodore F. Green
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Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
In office
January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959
Preceded by Walter F. George
Succeeded by J. William Fulbright
United States Senator
from Rhode Island
In office
January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1961
Preceded by Jesse H. Metcalf
Succeeded by Claiborne Pell
57th Governor of Rhode Island
In office
January 3, 1933 – January 5, 1937
Lieutenant Robert E. Quinn
Preceded by Norman S. Case
Succeeded by Robert E. Quinn
Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
In office
1907
Personal details
Born Theodore Francis Green
(1867-10-02)October 2, 1867
Providence, Rhode Island
Died May 19, 1966(1966-05-19) (aged 98)
Providence, Rhode Island
Resting place Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
Political party Democratic
Education

Theodore Francis Green (October 2, 1867 – May 19, 1966) was an American politician from Rhode Island. A Democrat, Green served as the 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1937) and in the United States Senate (1937–1961). He was a wealthy aristocratic Yankee from an old family who was a strong supporter of Wilsonian internationalism during the Democratic administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1933–53). Thanks to seniority he served briefly as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the time of his retirement in 1961, he set the record at age 92 of the oldest person to serve in the Senate; which was subsequently broken by Strom Thurmond.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island to Arnold Green, a lawyer, and Cornelia Abby Burges, he graduated from Providence High School in 1883 and Brown University in 1887, receiving a Master of Arts degree from Brown in 1888. He attended Harvard Law School from 1888 to 1890 and studied at the University of Bonn and University of Berlin from 1890 to 1892. A lifelong bachelor, Green devoted himself to the law, politics, and civic, business, and cultural activities. Admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 1892, he long practiced law, taking time during the Spanish–American War to serve in the Rhode Island Militia as a first lieutenant in command of a provisional infantry company. He served as president of J. P. Coats Company from 1912 to 1923 and Morris Plan Banker's Association from 1900 to 1929.

Green began his career in public life in 1907 as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Active in Democratic Party politics as chairman of state committees and a delegate to Democratic National Conventions, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor (1912, 1928, 1930) and the U.S. House of Representatives (1920). Party loyalty, perseverance, and the Great Depression won him election as governor in 1932. He served two terms (1933–1937).


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