intellectual lawyer, Adlai Stevenson, to oppose Green for a third term in office. In a surprising upset, Stevenson defeated Green in November 1948, ending Green's political career; the defeat was in part owing to his negligence in preventing the deaths of 111 miners in the Centralia mine disaster. Later years Governor Green returned to private life after his 1948 defeat. He died February 20, 1958, and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. References |- |- |- 1897 births 1958 deaths 20th-century American politicians United States Army personnel of World War I American prosecutors Burials at Rosehill Cemetery Republican Party governors of Illinois People from Ligonier, Indiana Politicians from Chicago Military personnel from Indiana United States Attorneys for the Northern District of Illinois Candidates in the 1948 United States presidential election Wabash College alumni