James S. Green

James S. Green

James Stephen Green (* 28. February 1817 at Rectortown , Fauquier County , Virginia ; †  19th January 1870 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ), of the state of Missouri in both houses of Congress represented .

After completing his schooling in Virginia, James Green moved first to Alabama and then to Missouri in 1838. There he studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1840 and began as a lawyer in Monticello to practice. He took on his first political assignment in 1845 as a delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention.

The following year, Green was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the first time as the representative of the 3rd  Congressional constituency of Missouri . He remained there after re-election until March 3, 1851; in 1850 he did not run again. Between 1853 and 1854 he served as the United States' Chargé d'affaires in Colombia. In June 1854 he was appointed envoy , but Green did not accept it.

After his return, James Green was elected again to the United States House of Representatives in 1856, but he renounced this mandate because a little later he also won the by-election for a vacant seat in the US Senate . This had previously remained vacant for almost two years because the Missouri Parliament could not choose between previous incumbent David Rice Atchison and Thomas Hart Benton . Green moved to the Senate on January 12, 1857 and remained there until March 3, 1861. He was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Territories .

After that James Green held no more political offices; he died in St. Louis in 1870. His older brother Martin served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War .

Web links

• James S. Green in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• James S. Green in the database of Find a Grave (English)