Robert Stockton Green

Robert Stockton Green

Infobox Governor
name = Robert Stockton Green


caption =
order = 27th
office = Governor of New Jersey
term_start = January 18, 1887
term_end = January 21, 1890
predecessor = Leon Abbett
successor = Leon Abbett
office2 = New Jersey's 3rd congressional district
term_start2 = March 4, 1885
term_end2 = January 17, 1887
predecessor2 = John Kean
successor2 = John Kean
spouse = Mary E. Mulligan
birth_date = birth date|1831|3|25|mf=y
birth_place = Princeton, New Jersey
death_date = death date and age|1895|5|7|1831|3|25|mf=y
death_place = Elizabeth, New Jersey
party = Democratic

Robert Stockton Green (March 25, 1831May 7, 1895) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 27th Governor of New Jersey from 1887-1890.

Green was born in Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1850. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was a member of the Elizabeth city council from 1863-1873, and was presiding judge of the Union County Court of Common Pleas from 1868 to 1873.

He was a Representative in the Forty-ninth United States Congress from March 4, 1885, until his resignation on January 17, 1887, when he stepped down to serve as Governor of New Jersey from 1887–1889.

Green was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1860, 1880 and 1888. He served as a judge on the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals, then the state's highest court, in 1894 and 1895. He died in Elizabeth, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.

ee also

*List of Governors of New Jersey

References

*CongBio|G000416
* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GGREE.pdf Biography of Robert Stockton Green (PDF)] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=ab1e2a7b22e89010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor Robert Stockton Green] , National Governors Association
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green7.html#R9M0IYMRO Robert Stockton Green] at The Political Graveyard
*Findagrave|3882|Robert Stockton Green
* "The Stockton Family of New Jersey and Other Stocktons", Dr. Thomas Coates Stockton, 1911 pg 75.
* "National Register Sons of The American Revolution", pg 686.
* "Herringshow's Encyclopedia of American Biography", pg 419.
* "20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans", Vol. IV., pg 393.

Persondata
NAME=Green, Robert Stockton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Governor of New Jersey
DATE OF BIRTH=March 25, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH=Princeton, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH=May 7, 1895
PLACE OF DEATH=Elizabeth, New Jersey


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