He grew up in the North Highlands neighborhood and attended public schools. After graduating from Jefferson County High School in Tarrant he went to work in Kentucky's oil fields for a few months. Green returned to Birmingham in to enroll in Birmingham-Southern College where he was a star on the baseball team. In he married Hattie Lee Taylor , with whom he eventually had five children. He graduated from the School of Law in and later was elected president of the Alumni Association.
He took a teaching position at Marbury High School in Autauga County and coached the football team there for a year. The year after that he was hired as a salesman for Glen Iris Dairies. He also worked in real estate and as an insurance broker and took night courses in law at Southern. Green represented Jefferson County in the Alabama Legislature, elected with the most votes among 31 at-large candidates.
He represented the county in two subsequent special sessions under Governor B. Miller , as well, before being appointed Postmaster of Birmingham on the recommendation of then Senator Hugo Black on May 1, He served twice as president of the Alabama chapter of the National Association of Postmasters and was a member of that group's national executive committee. He resigned in February to seek election to the unexpired term of Commission President Jimmie Jones who died in office.
He was the first candidate to enter the whirlwind race. In his campaign statement he pledged to continue his predecessor's policies, to expand the civil service system, and to soundly manage the city's finances. Green took office as chief administrator of the deeply-indebted city of , two days after the special election, on February 29 , In his inaugural speech he proclaimed that "During my administration, it is my high purpose to cultivate and develop a proper spirit for Birmingham.
The city with a soul will reduce sordidness, coldness, and wretchedness to a minimum. He was re-elected on October 13 , for a full four-year term, and won subsequent re-election campaigns in and , the last victory coming by a record margin. In the Summer of , due to a five-week strike by members of the Birmingham Typographical Union No.
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