The daughter of a middle class auto worker family in Detroit during the Great Depression, as a teenager, she was sent to a Catholic school for girls on the east coast for a time, and converted to Catholicism from her original Baptist upbringing. Upon her first opportunity to vote for president of the United States in 1956, she cast her vote for Adlai Stevenson. In 1960, raising two children by herself, she was impressed upon seeing John Kennedy campaigning at the Michigan State Fair, and cast another presidential vote for him. Particularly, in the 60's and early to mid 70's, she immersed herself in educational pursuits and clerical (as relating to the clergy) interests, befriending academians and priests. As a mother and clerical activist, she and her two kids were heavily involved in church activities, including going to the ordination of priests.
Going to colleges in the Midwest, she received a master's degree in theological studies along the way of becoming a teacher, counselor and theologian; fields in which she received many accolades from her colleagues. As the campaign manager for her son's run for Congress in 2002, she helped him win a major party nomination in Alaska, his second in a row. She was among the American dissenters that opposed Bush's drum beat for war in Iraq and influenced Mark to speak out against the war resolution in Congress during his '02 campaign. As the major influence of her son's political career, and thereby the rise of the Party of Commons, we are proud to name Ellen Greene (1933 - 2006) to the Party of Commons's Hall of Fame.
[Ellen's photograph can be seen on our "Memoirs and Poems" blog.]
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
Going to colleges in the Midwest, she received a master's degree in theological studies along the way of becoming a teacher, counselor and theologian; fields in which she received many accolades from her colleagues. As the campaign manager for her son's run for Congress in 2002, she helped him win a major party nomination in Alaska, his second in a row. She was among the American dissenters that opposed Bush's drum beat for war in Iraq and influenced Mark to speak out against the war resolution in Congress during his '02 campaign. As the major influence of her son's political career, and thereby the rise of the Party of Commons, we are proud to name Ellen Greene (1933 - 2006) to the Party of Commons's Hall of Fame.
[Ellen's photograph can be seen on our "Memoirs and Poems" blog.]
Copyright 2009, Party of Commons TM
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