Willis Green

Willis Green (* in Shenandoah Valley , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1845 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

The sources do not provide any information about Willis Green's life data. What is certain is that he was born in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. There he attended public schools. He later settled in the area of ​​the future state of Kentucky. In 1783 he became an administrative clerk in Lincoln County . In 1792 he was a member of the Kentucky Constituent Assembly. Subsequently he worked as a land surveyor.

Politically, Green did not reappear until the 1830s. It was then that he became a member of the Whig Party . He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1836 and 1837 . In the congressional election of 1838 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded John Calhoon on March 4, 1839 . After re-election, he was able to represent this district in Congress until March 3, 1843 . In the elections of 1842 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second district, which he represented there between March 4, 1843 and March 3, 1845 as the successor to Philip Triplett . The period after 1841 was marked by tension between President John Tyler and the Whigs. An annexation of the Republic of Texas , which has been independent of Mexico since 1836, was also discussed.

With the end of his time in Congress, the trail of Willis Green is lost.

Web links

• Willis Green in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)