Green, James W., lawyer, dean of the law school in the University of Kansas, was born at Cambridge, Washington county, N. Y., April 4, 1842, a son of Robert and Margaret (Woods) Green. He received an academic education, studied law, and in 1869 was admitted to the bar. The next year he began practice at Olathe, Kan.; was county attorney of Johnson county from 1875 to 1877; of Douglas county from 1878 to 1880, and on Nov. 1, 1878, he was made dean of the law school, which position he still holds. On Dec. 7, 1875, he married Miss May S. Banks of Lawrence, Kan. He was nominated by the Democratic state convention in 1884 for justice of the state supreme court, but was defeated with the rest of the ticket. In 1886 the degree of A. B. was conferred upon him by Williams College. In 1896-97 he was a member of the general council of the American Bar Association, and in 1904 was a delegate to the congress of lawyers and jurists held in St. Louis while the Louisiana Purchase exposition was in progress.