returned to Portland, Oregon, and became a professor of government at Warner Pacific College. She was appointed to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education in 1979. Later living in Wilsonville, she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships in 1981. Edith Green died on April 21, 1987, in Tualatin and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Corbett, Oregon. The Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in downtown Portland is named in her honor along with Congressman Wendell Wyatt, alongside whom she served during part of her tenure in Congress. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives References External links 1910 births 1987 deaths 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians Educators from Oregon Female members of the United States House of Representatives People from Moody County, South Dakota People from Wilsonville, Oregon Politicians from Salem, Oregon Radio personalities from Oregon Stanford University alumni University of Oregon alumni Warner Pacific University faculty Willamette University alumni Women in Oregon politics American women academics Equal Rights Amendment Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon