Doug Green (Louisiana politician)

Douglas D. "Doug" Green
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner
In office
March 14, 1988 – March 13, 1991
GovernorBuddy Roemer
Preceded bySherman A. Bernard
Succeeded byInterim commissioner, then:
James H. "Jim" Brown, elected 1991
Personal details
Bornc. 1950
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseLinn Green
Residence(s)Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
OccupationPrior 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]

  1. ^ "Jim Bradshaw, "Louisiana's seen several jailed state officials", October 2002". capitolwatch.reallouisiana.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2013.