S. William Green

Sedgwick William "Bill" Green (October 16, 1929 – October 14, 2002) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

Green was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan. He graduated from Harvard University in 1950 and Harvard Law School in 1953. From 1953 until 1955 he served in the United States Army. After leaving the army, he became the legal secretary to Court of Appeals Judge George T. Washington. He left this career in 1956 to become a trial lawyer.

From 1961 to 1964, Green was the chief counsel to the New York Joint Legislative Committee on Housing and Urban Development. A rising power in state politics, he was elected to the New York State Assembly, serving from 1965 to 1968. He left politics to become the New York City director of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Green was elected to Congress in a special election in 1978 to replace Ed Koch and served from February 14, 1978 until January 3, 1993. A mostly liberal Republican, he was one of the few members of his party to have a long run in office from a city long dominated by Democrats. Redistricting made his district slightly friendlier to Democrats, and he narrowly lost his 1992 re-election bid to New York City City Councilwoman Carolyn B. Maloney. Green sought the Republican nomination for New York governor in 1994 but lost to George Pataki, then an upstate state Senator.

In 2002, Green died after a battle with liver cancer.

Sources

• S. William Green at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress