Douglas D. "Doug" Green | |
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Louisiana Insurance Commissioner | |
In office March 14, 1988 – March 13, 1991 | |
Governor | Buddy Roemer |
Preceded by | Sherman A. Bernard |
Succeeded by | Interim commissioner, then: James H. "Jim" Brown, elected 1991 |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1950 |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Linn Green |
Residence(s) | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
Occupation | Prior to 1987: employee of IBM |
Douglas D. Green, known as Doug Green (born c. 1950), is the former Louisiana insurance commissioner who held the office from 1988 to 1991, when he received a 25-year federal sentence for taking $2 million in illegal campaign contributions from owners of insurance companies doing business with the state. Green's predecessor and fellow Democrat Sherman A. Bernard, whom he unseated in the 1987 nonpartisan blanket primary, pleaded guilty to extorting bribes disguised as campaign contributions and served forty-one months during the middle 1990s in a federal prison in Alabama.[1]