Facts: - death place: fall river , massachusetts - preceded: ezekiel whitman john simpkins - party: republican - death date: 22 september 1924 - office: mayor river common council city of fall river president of the of common council fall river , massachusetts city of fall - district: 15th 13th - term end: september , 1886 , 1897 1879 22 , 1924 march 3 , 1913 1881 - succeeded: robert leach john w. weeks - term start: march , 1886 , 1895 1877 4 , 1913 may 31 , 1898 1880 - state: massachusetts massachusetts - name: william stedman greene - birth date: 28 april 1841 - image: william stedman greene.png - birth place: tremont , illinois Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william s. greene .
william stedman greene -lrb- april 28 , 1841 -- september 22 , 1924 -rrb- was a united states representative from massachusetts .born in tremont , illinois , greene moved with his parents to fall river , massachusetts in 1844 .he attended the public schools and engaged in the real estate and insurance business .he was a member of the common council , and served as president of that body 1877-1879 .he served as mayor of fall river in 1880 , was reelected the following year , but resigned soon after assuming the position .greene was appointed postmaster of fall river on march 22 , 1881 , and served until march 30 , 1885 .he again served as mayor 1886 and 1895-1897 .he served as general superintendent of state prisons 1888-1898 , was reappointed postmaster of fall river and served from march 9 , to july 1 , 1898 , when he resigned to run for congress .he was elected as a republican to the fifty-fifth congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of john simpkins .he was reelected to the fifty-sixth and to the twelve succeeding congresses and served from may 31 , 1898 , until his death in fall river on september 22 , 1924 .he served as chairman of the committee on expenditures in the department of the navy for the fifty-eighth congress , and the committee on merchant marine and fisheries -lrb- sixtieth , sixty-first , and sixty-sixth through sixty-eighth congresses -rrb- .his interment was in oak grove cemetery .