Joseph Frederick Green

Who was Joseph Frederick Green?

Joseph Frederick Green was a British politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922 as the Member of Parliament for Leicester West.

Standing as a candidate of the National Democratic and Labour Party, with support of the Liberal-led and Conservative-dominated coalition government, he contested the newly-created Leicester West constituency at the 1918 general election. His only opponent was the Labour Party candidate Ramsay MacDonald, a sitting MP for the two-seat Leicester constituency until it was divided for this election.

With coalition support, Green won 76% of the votes, defeating MacDonald. However, at the 1922 general election, without coalition support, Green stood as a National Liberal Party candidate. He won only 28.4% of the votes, and lost his seat to the Labour Party candidate Alfred Hill. Green did not stand again.