Thomas M. Green, Jr.

Thomas Martston Green Jr. ( born February 26, 1758 in Williamsburg, Virginia; † February 7, 1813 in Jefferson County, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1802 and 1803 he represented the Mississippi Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Green was born in 1758 in the then British colony of Virginia. In 1782 he moved with his parents to the area around Natchez later in Mississippi Territory. He later moved to Fayette, where he built a large plantation, which he managed until his death. The Green family was good friends with the general and later President Andrew Jackson. He married in August 1791 his wife Rachel Donelson on the plantation of the Greens; Thomas was with the witness.

Green belonged to no political party. Nevertheless, he managed to ascend the Mississippi Territory in politics. In 1800 he was a member of the first Territorial Assembly in this field. At the same time he went into the militia up to colonel. After the death of the congress delegates Narsworthy Hunter Green was elected to succeed him in Congress. There he finished between 6 December 1802 and 3 March 1803, the legislature Unopened his predecessor.

Hunter decided not to stand in the regular congressional elections of 1802. He retired from politics and spent his last years on his plantation, where he was also buried after his death. He was married in 1780 to Martha Kirkland, with whom he had ten children.