Innis Green Explained

Innis Green
State:Pennsylvania
District:6th
Term Start:March 4, 1827
Term End:March 3, 1831
Preceded:Robert Harris
Succeeded:John Conrad Bucher
Birth Date:26 February 1776
Birth Place:Hanover Township, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
Death Place:Dauphin, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Party:Jacksonian

Innis Green (February 26, 1776August 4, 1839) was a Jacksonian Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Innis Green was born in Hanover Township in the Province of Pennsylvania. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was appointed associate judge of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by Governor William Findlay in 1818, and resigned October 23, 1827.

Green was elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress. After his time in Congress, he was reappointed associate judge of Dauphin County and served until his death in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, in 1839. Interment was in Dauphin Cemetery.

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