A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . was a lawyerand made his home in St. few days after he becamegovernor he was elected, in 1857,United States Senator for six yearsto succeed Senator Henry He was strongly pro-southern and was expelled fromthe Senate in 1862 on the chargeof disloyalty. The same Legisla-ture elected James S. Green, ofLewis county, as the other UnitedStates Senator. Senator Green,who was a lawyer, was a nativeof Virginia. He was one of the ablest, if not the foremost
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . was a lawyerand made his home in St. few days after he becamegovernor he was elected, in 1857,United States Senator for six yearsto succeed Senator Henry He was strongly pro-southern and was expelled fromthe Senate in 1862 on the chargeof disloyalty. The same Legisla-ture elected James S. Green, ofLewis county, as the other UnitedStates Senator. Senator Green,who was a lawyer, was a nativeof Virginia. He was one of the ablest, if not the foremost,orator Missouri has produced. Although a young man he•had held important public positionsand was one of the leaders of theDemocratic party in Missouri. Hedid more through his publicspeeches to defeat Benton in ISSOand again in 1856 than any otherman in this State. He was a re-markable orator, a shrewd poli-tician, and an able senator. On his election to the UnitedStates Senate, Governor Polk re-signed the governorship, and Han-cock Jackson, the lieutenant-gov-ernor, served until the specialelection was held in August, J.\.MES S. GREEN 142 History of Missouri and Missourians At this special election, Robert M. Stewart, the Democraticcandidate, was opposed by James S. Rollins, one of the ablestWhig leaders of the State, who ran on the American contest was close and Governor Stewart was elected by amajority of only 334 votes—this indicates the great growth of the opposition. GovernorStewart was a native of New made his home in St. was an able lawyer and hadfilled many important public of-fices. He was deeply interested inrailroads, being president of theHannibal and St. Joseph road. Hewas one of the proslavery leadersbut during the Civil War sidedwith the Union. The principalevents of his administration werethe establishment of a state bank-ing system which gave Missouribetter banking facilities, the cre-ation of the office of state bank ex
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