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Feb 10, 1870 St. Albans, Vermont, United States Died on 17 Dec 1930 (aged 60)
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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.
