Innis Green (February 26, 1776August 4, 1839) was a
Jacksonian Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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from
Pennsylvania
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.
Biography
Innis Green was born in
Hanover Township,
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
Dauphin County (; Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 286,401. The county seat and the largest city is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth ...
, 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
Dauphin is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 796 at the 2020 census. Dauphin's ZIP code is 17018. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Dauphin is located ...
, in 1839. Interment was in Dauphin Cemetery.
Sources
The Political Graveyard*
1776 births
1839 deaths
Pennsylvania lawyers
Pennsylvania state court judges
People from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
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