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Senate Years of Service: 1857-1861 Party: Democrat
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State Historical Society of Missouri |
GREEN, James Stephen, a Representative and a Senator from Missouri; born near Rectortown, Fauquier
County, Va., February 28, 1817; attended the common schools; moved to Alabama and then to
Missouri about 1838; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in
Monticello, Mo.; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1845; elected as a Democrat to
the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1850; Charge dAffaires to Colombia 1853-1854; appointed Minister Resident in
June 1854, but did not present his credentials; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress, but
did not take his seat, having been elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term
commencing March 4, 1855, and served from January 12, 1857, to March 3, 1861; chairman,
Committee on Territories (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); died in St. Louis, Mo., January
19, 1870; interment in the Old Cemetery, Canton, Mo.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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