Samuel Green | |
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South Carolina House of Representatives | |
In office 1870–1875 | |
South Carolina State Senate | |
In office 1875–1877 | |
Personal details | |
Born | South Carolina |
Political party | Republican |
Samuel Green [note 1] was a carpenter,farmer and state legislator who served in the South Carolina House of Representatives and South Carolina State Senate during the Reconstruction era. [1]
Green was born enslaved in Beaufort County in either 1825 or August 1847 and was put to work in the fields. [1] [2]
After the American Civil War he worked as a carpenter and a farmer owning a farm on Lady's Island. [1]
In November 1873 Green was appointed adjutant general of the state militia with the rank of major. [3] [1]
He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1870 to 1875 representing Beaufort County,South Carolina. [1] When Robert Smalls resigned his senate seat in early 1875 Green and fellow representative Nathaniel B. Myers resigned to run for the seat. [4] Green went on to win the election, [5] and served in the South Carolina State Senate from 1875 until 1877. [1]
He was elected as the chairman of the Beaufort County Republican Party September 1876. [6]
Green resigned his senate seat at the end of the 1877 session when the Democrats gained overall control of the legislature. [7] [1]
In 1880 he was made a United States Customs official. [1]
His date of death is unknown but he was listed alive in the 1910 United States census. [1]