Byram Green (April 15, 1786 – October 18, 1865) was a New York state legislator for years in the Assembly and Senate, from 1816 to 1824. In 1842, he was elected

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and served one term from 1843 to 1845.

Early life and education

Born in East Windsor,

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, Green attended the public schools. He earned a degree from

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in 1808. There in the summer of 1806, Green was among the five participants in the

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. Within a few years, those men launched the American missionary movement. Green was later instrumental in having a monument created to honor that meeting and movement. It was placed at Mission Park at Williams College.

Career

Green became a professor in a college at

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in 1810. He went on to study ("read") law with practitioners, in the tradition of the day, and was admitted to the

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. He began to practice law. He went to New York, where he settled in Sodus. During the War of 1812, he fought in the Battle of Sodus Point. In 1816 Green was first elected to the

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, where he served until 1822, upon re-election. After that, he was elected to the

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in 1823 and 1824.

Congress

Green was elected as a

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/ref> in the Twenty-eighth Congress. He held office from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845.

Death

He died in

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in 1865; interment was in the Sodus Rural Cemetery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Byram 1786 births 1865 deaths Politicians from Berkshire County, Massachusetts People from Sodus, New York Williams College alumni Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly Democratic Party New York (state) state senators Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century New York state court judges 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives