Frank L. Greene

Frank Lester Greene was a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont.

Frank Greene was born in St. Albans, Vermont on February 10, 1870. He attended the public schools in St. Albans and Cleveland, Ohio. The Greene family had relocated to Cleveland because Franks father Lester had become SecretaryTreasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. When Frank Greene washis father became ill and could no longer work. The family returned to Vermont and Frank quit school to help support his family by taking a job as a messenger with the Central Vermont Railway. He remained with the railroad until 1891, learning shorthand and stenography and advancing to the position of chief clerk in the general freight department. Having worked parttime as a correspondent for The Boston Globe and other newspapers beginning in 1888, in 1891 Greene made journalism his fulltime career, first as a reporter for and later as editor of the St. Albans Messenger. He was president of the Vermont Press Association from 1904 to 1905.

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