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See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• DUFF GREEN (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

GREEN (1791—1875)  , American politician and journalist, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, on the 15th of August 1791 . He was a school teacher in his native state, served during the War of 1812 in the Kentucky militia, and then settled in Missouri, where he worked as a schoolmaster and practised law . He was a member of the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 182o, and was elected to the state House of Representatives in 182o and to the state Senate in 1822, serving one term in each house . Becoming interested in journalism, he purchased and for two years edited the St Louis Enquirer . In 1825 he bought and afterwards edited in Washington, D.C., The United States Telegraph, which soon became the principal organ of the Jackson men in opposition to the Adams administration . Upon Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency, the Telegraph became the principal mouthpiece of the administration, and received printing patronage estimated in value at $50,000 a year, while Green became one of the coterie of unofficial advisers of Jackson known as the " Kitchen Cabinet." In the quarrel between Jackson and John C . Calhoun, Green supported the latter, and through the columns of the Telegraph violently attacked the administration . In consequence, his paper was deprived of the government printing in the spring of 1831 . Green, however, continued to edit it in the Calhoun interest until 1835, and gave vigorous support to that leader's nullification views . From 1835 to 1838 he edited The Reformation, a radically partisan publication, devoted to free trade and the extreme states' rights theory.: In 1841—1843 he was in Europe on behalf of the Tyler administration, and he is said to have been instrumental in causing the appointment of Lord Ashburton to negotiate in Washington concerning the boundary dispute between Maine and Canada . In January 1843 Green established in New York City a short-lived journal, The Republic, to combat the spoils system and to advocate free trade . In September 1844 Calhoun, then secretary of state, sent Green to Texas ostensibly as consul at Galveston, advocating cheerfulness, exercise and a quiet content as remedies .

It is full of witty sayings .