William Raymond Green Jr. (September 7, 1889 – May 23, 1966) was a judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the United States Tax Court) from 1925 to 1929.
Born in Audubon, Iowa,"W. R. Green, Retired Lawyer, Dies", The Wilmington News Journal (May 23, 1966), p. 28. Green was the son of William R. Green, who served in the United States Congress and later as a judge of the Court of Federal Claims."Tax Appeal Board Is Placed In Peril By Senate Delay", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 6, 1926), p. 4. Green received a law degree from Creighton University in Idaho in 1911, and practiced law in that state for a time. He served as an officer in the United States Army Air Force during World War I, and prior to his appointment to the board of tax appeals in 1925, served in the office of the Treasury Solicitor."Thirteen Members of Board of Tax Appeals Reappointed", National Income Tax Magazine (June 1926), vol. 4, no. 6, p. 206-210.
Green resigned from the board of tax appeals to accept the position of general counsel for the Corning Glass Works in Corning, New York."Former Buhl Attorney Gets Important Post", The Salt Lake Tribune (April 19, 1930), p. 26. He was succeeded on the board of tax appeals by Annabel Matthews, the first woman appointed to that body."Former Georgia School Teacher Appointed To Appeals Board", The Times Dispatch (February 6, 1930), p. 5. By mid-1933, Green had formed a new law firm in New York with Hugh Satterlee, another former attorney from the Bureau of Internal Revenue."Four Attorneys Resign From Federal Service", Washington Evening Star (June 26, 1933), p. 17. Green remained in practice with that firm until his retirement in the early 1950s, and moved to Delaware around 1966.
Green married Georgia Lloyd, with whom he had a daughter. Green died at a Delaware hospital following a brief illness, at the age of 77.
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