Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Robert Francis Green | |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |
Constituency: | West Kootenay-Slocan |
Term Start: | 1898 |
Term End: | 1903 |
Constituency2: | Kaslo |
Term Start2: | 1903 |
Term End2: | 1907 |
Successor2: | Neil Franklin MacKay |
Constituency Mp3: | Kootenay |
Parliament3: | Canadian |
Term Start3: | 1912 |
Term End3: | 1917 |
Predecessor3: | Arthur Samuel Goodeve |
Constituency Mp4: | Kootenay West |
Parliament4: | Canadian |
Term Start4: | 1917 |
Term End4: | 1921 |
Successor4: | Levi William Humphrey |
Office5: | Member of the Senate of Canada for British Columbia |
Term Start5: | October 3, 1921 |
Term End5: | October 5, 1946 |
Birth Date: | 14 November 1861 |
Birth Place: | Peterborough, Canada West |
Death Place: | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
Party: | Conservative |
Profession: | Merchant, businessman |
Robert Francis Green (November 14, 1861 – October 5, 1946) was a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician, born in Peterborough, Canada West. From 1893 to 1897, Green served three terms as mayor of Kaslo, British Columbia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1898 to 1907, representing the ridings of first West Kootenay-Slocan then Kaslo. After the 1903 BC elections, Green was part of the government of Richard McBride, and was appointed Minister of Mines (June to November 1903), Education (June to September 1903), Lands and Works (November 1903 to December 1906), and Provincial Secretary (June to September 1903).
He was elected MP for Kootenay in 1912 and re-elected in the successor riding Kootenay West in 1917. At the end of that term in 1921, he was appointed to the Senate, where he served until his death at the age of 86.[1]