About Alan Green, Jr.: American Diplomat (1925 – 2001)
Alan “Punch” Green, Jr. (May 1, 1925 – March 23, 2001) was the U.S. Ambassador to Romania from 1989 to 1992. Green’s service began before the overthrow and execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He evacuated women and children from the grounds and slept on an office sofa for ten days due to the explosion near Bucharest. In May 1990, he was recalled “to Washington for ‘consultation.'” A State Department spokesman described the move as “a public signal of our concern for a free and fair electoral process.”
business career
Green is the chairman and owner of Tom Benson Glass Company. He went on to own the Western Battery Company in Beaverton, Oregon. Green is a recovering alcoholic and co-founder of Integrated Care, which provides treatment for alcoholism.
Political career
Green presided over the campaigns of former Oregon Governors Victor Attier and Tom McCall and led the Oregon campaigns of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Presidents George H.W. Bush State Campaign Committee.
After serving two terms as chairman of the Port of Portland, Ronald Reagan appointed him chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission in 1981. Greene “sees as one of his proudest accomplishments guiding the passage of the Shipping Act of 1984 through Congress” during his four-year term.
personal life
Green was the valedictorian for the class at Lincoln High School (Portland, OR), served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II, and graduated from Stanford University in 1949. At Stanford, he was known as Mr. Republican.
Green died at home of heart failure.
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