David S. Green was a minister and state legislator in Mississippi.Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press 1996 page 90 He represented Grenada County in the

Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...

from 1872 to 1875. He was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1912, the Mississippi Historical Society described him as a "very black, common, old Negro."

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