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Green, Robert Stockton

lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1831, at Princeton, N. J. He was city attorney of the city of Elizabeth, N. J., from 1857 to 1868; was surrogate of Union county from 1862 to 1867; and was presiding judge of Union county court of common pleas from 1868 to 1873. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1860 and 1880; and in 1884 was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.