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Henry Green (August 29, 1828 – August 16, 1900) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Henry Green was born in Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey. He graduated from Lafayette College in nearby Easton, Pennsylvania in 1846, studied law under Professor Washington McCartney in Easton, and was admitted to the bar of Northampton County (PA) in September 1849. In 1851, he became associated with the law office of Andrew Horatio Reeder, a prominent Easton attorney.〔Blanchard, Col. Charles, Editor. The Progressive Men of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Logansport, IN; A.W. Bowen & Company, 1900, Volume II, page 614〕 ==Career== Reeder was appointed as Governor of the Kansas Territory in 1854 by President Franklin Pierce. Reeder departed and the maintenance of his practice was in Green's hands. When Reeder eventually returned to Easton, he made Green his partner; the two kept this status until Reeder's death in 1864.〔Pennsylvania State Reports Containing Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Volume 197. West Publishing Company, 1901, pg. xxi.〕 There is no record of Green ever having another partner during his time in private practice. His practice was described as ". . . large and lucrative . . ." by the New York Times in 1879. His clients included the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its operator, prominent Pennsylvania businessman Asa Packer.〔New York Times, September 30, 1879, page 2.〕 Among the matters Green handled for Packer was a legal action against Noble, Hammond & Company that lasted for over 25 years. By the time that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court finally resolved it in 1883, in favor of Green's client, all of the principals were dead.〔New York Times, October 19, 1883, page 1.〕 Green was appointed to fill a temporary vacancy on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in September, 1879 by Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Henry M. Hoyt.〔New York Times, September 30, 1879, page 2.〕 Green was known as solid Republican. He had attended the party's first nominating convention, held in 1856 in Philadelphia and had served on the party's state Executive Committee. He also had been an appointed delegate to Pennsylvania's Constitutional Convention in 1873.〔Blanchard, Col. Charles, Editor, page 617〕 As his temporary appointment neared its end in 1880, Green was nominated by the Republicans to run for a full 21-year term on the Court. He defeated the Democratic candidate, George Jenks of Brookville, PA, in November,〔Easton Express, November 3, 1888, page 3〕 and took his semi-permanent seat on December 2, 1880〔Historical List of Supreme Court Justices. Accessed March 21, 2015 http://www.pacourts.us/learn/history/historical-list-of-supreme-court-justices〕 The case that seems to be most often-mentioned in connection with Justice Green is ''Commonwealth v. Gloucester Ferry Company'', an interstate taxation and commerce dispute. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania found in favor of the Commonwealth (i.e., Pennsylvania), but Green filed a vigorous dissent. The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which overturned Pennsylvania's highest court and affirmed the position taken by Green. (114 U.S. 196) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Green (judge)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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