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Green, James Stephen

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 28, 1817, in Fauquier county, Va. He was elected a member of congress in 1846, serving through two terms. In 1853 President Pierce appointed him charge d'affaires, and subsequently minister resident, at Bogota, New Granada. He was again elected a member of congress in 1856, but before taking his seat was chosen by the legislature to represent the state of Missouri in the senate of the United States, where he remained until 1861. He died Jan. 9, 1870, in St.

Louis, Mo.