Given the question: Facts: - profession: educator , business owner - imagesize: 150px - residence: wasilla , alaska - successor: linda menard -lrb- redistricting takes effect -rrb- - state senate: alaska alaska - party: republican - predecessor: -lrb- redistricting took effect -rrb- jalmar m. kerttula - spouse: curtis - district: g n - term end: january 19 , 2009 january 20 , 2003 - children: shelton , kristie , bradley - term start: january 21 , 2003 january 16 , 1995 - state: alaska alaska - birth date: 16 october 1938 - birth place: livingston , texas - religion: southern baptist - alma mater: sam houston state university , university of alaska Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lyda green .
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lyda n. green -lrb- born october 16 , 1938 in livingston , texas -rrb- is a retired educator and republican politician in the u.s. state of alaska .green , as a political newcomer , was elected to the alaska senate in 1994 , defeating a 22-year democratic incumbent in a district representing most of the population of the matanuska-susitna borough .two democratic members of the alaska house of representatives , also from the matanuska-susitna valley , were defeated in the same election .green served a total of fourteen years in the senate and was its president in her final two years in office .