Frank L. Greene

Frank Lester Greene
Frank Greene
United States Senator
from Vermont
In office
March 4, 1923 – December 17, 1930
Preceded byCarroll S. Page
Succeeded byFrank C. Partridge
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Vermont's 1st district
In office
July 30, 1912 – March 3, 1923
Preceded byDavid J. Foster
Succeeded byFrederick G. Fleetwood
Personal details
Born(1870-02-10)February 10, 1870
St. Albans, Vermont
DiedDecember 17, 1930(1930-12-17) (aged 60)
St. Albans, Vermont
Resting placeGreenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, Vermont
Political partyRepublican
SpouseJessie Emma Richardson (m. 1895-1930, his death)[1]
Children3
OccupationNewspaper editor
Militia officer
Legislator
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/service Vermont Militia
 United States Army
Years of service1888–1900 (Militia)
1898 (United States Army)
Rank Colonel
UnitVermont Militia
3rd Brigade, First Division, Third Army Corps
Battles/warsSpanish–American War

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 elected 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, D.C., 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.

  1. ^ Walter Anson Greene, Ella Louise Geib Greene, A Greene Family History, 1981, page 118