Green Clay Smith
Union Army general
Died when: 68 years 360 days (827 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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Green Clay Smith (July 4, 1826 – June 29, 1895) was a United States soldier and politician.Elected to the Kentucky state house before the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a Union officer when he volunteered, advancing to the rank of brigadier general before he resigned to go to Congress.
He was promoted to Major General by brevet on March 13, 1865.He was elected to the US Congress from Kentucky in 1862, representing the Unionist Party and serving until 1866.
That year, Smith was appointed as the Territorial Governor of Montana, serving from 1866 to 1869.He returned to Washington, D.C., where he was ordained as a Baptist minister and became active in the temperance movement.
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