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William Green
… Progressive Miners Union in 1891, which later became a local of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). He went on to serve as subdistrict president of the UMWA in 1900 and president of the Ohio district of the UMWA in 1906. In 1910, Green … in the Ohio Senate, where he served as both Senate president pro tempore and Democratic floor leader. He was re-elected to a second term in 1912. As a state senator, Green wrote and won passage in 1911 of a model Workmen's Compensation Act. He also secured bills to limit the hours of women wage earners, establish a 1 percent income tax, elect Ohio's U.S. senators by popular vote and …