{{short description|American politician (1831-1895)}} {{Other people|Robert Green}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Robert Stockton Green | image = Robert Stockton Green C M Bell.jpg | office = Judge of the [[New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals]] | term_start = 1894 | term_end = May 7, 1895 | office1 = Vice-Chancellor of the [[New_Jersey_Superior_Court#Chancery_Division|New Jersey Chancery Court]] | term_start1 = 1890 | term_end1 = 1895 | office2 = 27th [[Governor of New Jersey]] | term_start2 = January 18, 1887 | term_end2 = January 21, 1890 | predecessor2 = Leon Abbett | successor2 = [[Leon Abbett]] | state3 = [[New Jersey]] | district3 = [[United States House of Representatives, New Jersey District 3|3rd]] | term_start3 = March 4, 1885 | term_end3 = January 17, 1887 | predecessor3 = John Kean | successor3 = [[John Kean (New Jersey)|John Kean]] | office4 = [[Presiding Judge]] of the [[Union County, New Jersey|Union County]] [[Court of Common Pleas]] | term_start4 = 1868 | term_end4 = 1873 | office5 = Member of [[Elizabeth, New Jersey|Elizabeth]] [[City council]] | term_start5 = 1863 | term_end5 = 1873 | office6 = [[Probate court|Surrogate]] of Union County | term_start6 = 1862 | term_end6 = 1867 | office7 = Elizabeth [[City Attorney]] | term_start7 = 1857 | term_end7 = 1868 | office8 = [[Prosecuting Attorney]] of Union County | term8 = 1857 | spouse = Mary Mulligan | birth_date = {{birth date|1831|3|25}} | birth_place = [[Princeton, New Jersey]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1895|5|7|1831|3|25}} | death_place = [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]], U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | signature = Signature of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895).png | resting_place = [[Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], US | children = 4 | parents = [[James S. Green]] (father)<br>Isabella Williamson McCulloh (mother) | alma_mater = [[Princeton University|College of New Jersey]] }} '''Robert Stockton Green''' (March 25, 1831 – May 7, 1895) was an American [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] politician, who was the 27th [[governor of New Jersey]] from 1887 to 1890. He also sat for one term in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1885 to 1887.
==Early life and education== Green was born in [[Princeton, New Jersey]], the son of [[James S. Green (New Jersey lawyer)|James S. Green]] and the former Isabella Williamson McCulloh. His father was [[United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey|U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey]] from 1835 to 1850. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now [[Princeton University]]) in 1850. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]].
On October 1, 1857, he married the former Mary E. Mulligan. They had four children: Caroline, Catherine, Isabelle and Robert Stockton Green Jr.
==Political career== He was a member of the Elizabeth city council from 1863 to 1873, and was presiding judge of the [[Union County, New Jersey|Union County]] [[New Jersey Court of Common Pleas|Court of Common Pleas]] from 1868 to 1873.
===Congress and governor=== He was a U.S. representative in the [[Forty-ninth United States Congress]] from March 4, 1885, until his resignation on January 17, 1887, when he stepped down to become Governor of New Jersey from 1887 to 1889.
===Judge=== Green was a delegate to the [[Democratic National Convention]]s in [[1860 Democratic National Convention|1860]], [[1880 Democratic National Convention|1880]] and [[1888 Democratic National Convention|1888]].
He was a judge on the [[New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals]], then the state's highest court, in 1894 and 1895.
==Death== He died in Elizabeth on May 7, 1895.<ref>{{cite news |title=Death Of Robert S. Green. The Vice Chancellor of New-Jersey Succumbs to Heart Trouble. Had Been Governor and a Representative Also |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1895/05/08/archives/death-of-robert-s-green-the-vice-chancellor-of-newjersey-succumbs.html |quote=Ex-Gov. and Vice Chancellor Robert Stockton Green of New-Jersey died to-day at his home, in West Jersey Street, of valvular disease of the heart. He had been ill since August, 1894, but the nature of his sickness until the last month was kept a secret. |work=New York Times |date=May 8, 1895 |access-date=March 10, 2010 }}</ref> He was buried in [[Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn|Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York City.
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==External links== {{CongBio|G000416}} *[http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GGREE.pdf Biography of Robert Stockton Green (PDF)], [[New Jersey State Library]] *[http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=ab1e2a7b22e89010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor Robert Stockton Green], [[National Governors Association]] *[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/green7.html#R9M0IYMRO Robert Stockton Green] at [[The Political Graveyard]] *{{Find a Grave|3882|Robert Stockton Green}}
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