George E. Green was a prominent politician and businessman in the Greater Binghamton, NY area. Green was born in Kirkwood, NY in 1858. He served as mayor of Binghamton, NY from 1893 to 1899, a member of the New York State Senate 38th District from 1901 to 1904, as the State Commissioner of excise for New York, President of the League of Republican Clubs of New York, and a delegate to New York State Cconstitutional convention 39th District in 1915. Green was an early investor in the Bundy Manufacturing Company and became president of International Time Recording Company, which later merged into Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company — the precursor to International Business Machines (IBM).

Additionally, Green held various positions in a range of companies in which he was an investor including Berry and Green (Wholesale Flour and Feed), Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, Binghamton Railroad Company, Coal Dealers’ Supply Company, Consolidated Booksellers of New York, Donnelly-Dunham Coal Mining Company, Doremus Machines Company, Endicott Land Company, General Electric Inspection Company, Guardian Trust Company, Harris Safety Company, Hudson Valley Railway Company, Iron Clad Manufacturing Company, New York Casualty Company, Security Mutual Life Insurance, Waverly, Sayre and Athens Railway Company, Yaqui Copper Company, and the Yerba Maté Tea Company (American-Brazilian Trading Company).

Green died January 16, 1917 due to complications from an operation and is interred at Spring Forest Cemetery in Binghamton, New York.