Thomas Jefferson Green
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Thomas Jefferson Green (February 14, 1802 – December 12, 1863) was an American politician who served in the legislatures of three different U.S. states and also of Texas, which was not yet a state.
Born in Warren County, North Carolina in 1802, Green served in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1823, then moved to Florida and served in the Florida Legislature, moved to Texas and served in both houses of the congress of the Texas Republic, and then moved to California during the gold rush and was elected to the first California Senate in 1850. There, he sponsored the bill that created the University of California.
Finally, Green returned to his native North Carolina, where he died in 1863.
He was the father of Wharton Jackson Green.
