Background
Alexander Little Page Green was born on June 26, 1806 in Sevier County, Tennessee. His father was George Green and his mother, Judith Spillman. He grew up in Alabama.
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Career
He became an ordained deacon in 1826 and an elder in 1828. He was elected to the General conference in 1831 and re-elected until he died. He was also one of the commissioners overseeing the lawsuit between the Southern and Northern Methodist Churches.
He also founded the Southern Methodist Publishing House.
Green was also one of the founders of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Indeed, as early as 1859, he was the President of the Board of Trustees of the Central University, its precursor before it received a donation from Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877).
Later, from 1872 to 1875, he served as Treasurer of its Board of Trust. He also sat on the Board of Trustees of the Tennessee Blind School.
Additionally, throughout his ministry, he carried medical pills and powders for sick patients, even though he did not have a doctor"s license.
Green was a slaveowner. During the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865, he supported the Confederate States Army. Green died on July 15, 1874 in Davidson County, Tennessee.
He was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, where there is a monument in his honor.
His portrait hangs in the Board of Trust lounge of Kirkland Hall, the administrative building of Vanderbilt University. Moreover, the Alex Green Elementary School, located in Whites Creek, Tennessee North of Nashville, is named in his honor.
