Edith S. Green Dies; Served 20 Years in Congress
TUALATIN, Ore. — Former Rep. Edith S. Green (D-Ore.), a schoolteacher whose Capitol Hill career spanned 20 years of championing education and equal rights, died Tuesday night of pancreatic cancer, Meridian Park Hospital officials said. She was 77.
In 1955, Green introduced the first bill to require that men and women receive the same wages for the same tasks. The notion became law eight years later.
Green was Oregon chairwoman for the presidential campaigns of John and Robert Kennedy. In 1984, she declined to support Walter Mondale against President Reagan, in part due to his role in a credentials fight at the Democratic convention that year.
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