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Green Adams
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861
Preceded byJohn Milton Elliott
Succeeded byGeorge W. Dunlap
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 6th district
In office
March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1849
Preceded byJohn Preston Martin
Succeeded byDaniel Breck
Personal details
Born(1812-08-20)August 20, 1812
Barbourville, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedJanuary 18, 1884(1884-01-18) (aged 71)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting placeWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political partyOpposition Party
Other political
affiliations		Whig
RelationsGeorge Madison Adams (nephew)[1]
ProfessionPolitician, lawyer

Green Adams (August 20, 1812 – January 18, 1884) was an American politician who served as a Whig member of the United States House of Representatives for Kentucky from 1847 to 1849 and as an Opposition Party member from 1859 to 1861. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1839, a judge in the Kentucky Circuit Court from 1851 to 1856, and the sixth auditor of the United States Treasury Department from 1861 to 1864

Biography

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He was born in Barbourville, Kentucky, on August 20, 1812. He worked as a farmer,[2] studied law and was admitted to the bar.[3] He served as deputy sheriff in Knox County from 1832 to 1833.[2] In 1839, he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives. In 1844, he served as a presidential elector for the Whig Party. He was elected as a member of the Whig Party to the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky in 1847, remaining in that capacity through 1849. He was made a judge of the Circuit Court of Kentucky in 1851, remaining there though 1856. In 1859, he was reelected to the United States Congress for one term on the Opposition Party ticket.[3]

After the seccession of South Carolina from the United States, but before the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, the House of Representatives attempted to pass legislation to coerce the reintegration of successionist states back into the United States. He was a slave owner,[4][5] but also one of the only congressmen from Southern states to support coercion besides Henry Winter Davis of Baltimore.[6]

In 1861, he was appointed the sixth auditor of the United States Treasury Department, remaining there through 1864.[3] He served as disbursing clerk for the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1881.[2]

He practiced law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[7] He died in Philadelphia on January 18, 1884, and was interred at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Adams, George Madison 1837-1920". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Herringshaw, Thomas William (1898). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: American Publishers' Association. p. 22. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d "Adams, Green 1812 - 1884". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
  4. ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 13, 2022, retrieved January 14, 2022
  5. ^ Adams, Green (1848). Speech of Green Adams, of Kentucky, on the Oregon Bill: Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 27, 1848. J.T. Towers.
  6. ^ Bensel, Richard Franklin (1990). Yankee Leviathan - The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 78–80. ISBN 0-521-39136-9. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
  7. ^ Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis - Who's Who, Incorporated. 1963. p. 15. Retrieved May 19, 2025.
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Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 6th congressional district
1847 – 1849 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kentucky's 6th congressional district
1859 – 1861 		Succeeded by
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