GREEN, James Stephens, senator, was born in Fauquier county, Va., Feb. 28, 1817. He attended the public schools, removed to Alabama in 1836, and then to Canton, Mo., where he was admitted to the bar in 1840 and began practice. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1844; was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1845; and a representative in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51. He argued a boundary dispute case in the supreme court, by appointment of Gov. Austin A. King, and in 1849-50 canvassed his state in opposition to the return of Senator Thomas H. Benton, and Henry S. Geyer was elected to succeed him in the U.S. senate. In 1853 President Pierce appointed Mr. Green chargé d'affaires and subsequently minister resident at Bogota, New Grenada. He was elected a representative in the 34th congress in 1854, but before taking his seat, Dec. 3, 1855, he was chosen U.S. senator as successor to D. R. Atckison, and he served his entire term. During the second session of the 35th congress he was chairman of the senate committee on territories and presented the report of that committee advocating the admission of Kansas to the Union under the Lecompton constitution. He died in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 9, 1870. Deloris Williams