Warren Everett Green was the thirteenth Governor

Governor of South Dakota

The Governor of South Dakota is the head of the executive branch of the government of South Dakota. They are elected to a four year term on even years when there is no Presidential election. The current governor is Dennis Daugaard, a Republican elected in 2010....

 of South Dakota

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

. Green, a Republican from Hazel, South Dakota

Hazel, South Dakota

Hazel is a town in Hamlin County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Watertown, South Dakota Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 91 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Hazel is located at ....

, served from 1931 to 1933.

Biography

Warren Everett Green was born in Jackson County, Wisconsin

Jackson County, Wisconsin

Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of 2009, the population estimate was 19,886. Its county seat is Black River Falls. Jackson County was formed from Crawford County in 1853.-Geography:According to the U.S...

, the oldest of eight children. He family emigrated to Dakota Territory

Dakota Territory

The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.The Dakota Territory consisted of...

 and settled in Hamlin County

Hamlin County, South Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,540 people, 2,048 households, and 1,452 families residing in the county. The population density was 11 people per square mile . There were 2,626 housing units at an average density of 5 per square mile...

 in the spring of 1881. Green grew up there and went into the farming business. He served in several local offices and married Elizabeth Jane Parliament in 1899. They had four children.

Green served three terms in the state senate, South Dakota Legislature

South Dakota Legislature

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. He was elected in 1906, 1922 and 1924. He served on the state Board of Charities and Corrections from 1913 to 1920.

He was elected Governor in 1930 and took office at the beginning of the Great Depression

Great Depression

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. He inherited a massive state debt that he met with tax reform and budget reductions. He reduced salaries from 10 to 20 percent. He also had to deal with drought, a grasshopper plague, a crop failure and an exceptionally hard failure. He sought re-election in 1932 by was defeated by Tom Berry

Tom Berry

For the professional baseball player, see Tom Berry Thomas Matthew Berry was the fourteenth Governor of South Dakota. Berry, a Democrat from Belvidere, South Dakota, served from 1933 to 1937...

. He went back to his farm at Hazel. He died April 27, 1945.