Green Kendrick
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Green Kendrick was an American
United States
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 politician
Politician
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 who was elected as a Whig
Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic...

 as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1851 to 1852. As his party's nominee for Governor in the 1852 election, he was defeated by the incumbent Democrat Thomas H. Seymour gaining 45 percent of the vote. He later served as Speaker of the House in the 1854 and 1856 sessions of the state legislature. sources http://www.cslib.org/agencies/lieutenantgovernor.htm http://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/speakers.htm
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