Lewis W. Green

The Reverend Lewis W. Green
9th President of Hampden–Sydney College
In office January 10, 1849 – September 1, 1856
Preceded by	Patrick J. Sparrow
Succeeded by	Albert L. Holladay
8th President of Transylvania University
In office November 18, 1856 – January 1, 1858
Preceded by	Henry Bidleman Bascom
Succeeded by	Abraham Drake
5th President of Centre College
In office January 1, 1858 – May 26, 1863
Preceded by	John C. Young
Succeeded by	William L. Breckinridge
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Born	(1806-01-28)January 28, 1806 Danville, Kentucky, US
Died	May 26, 1863(1863-05-26) (aged 57) Danville, Kentucky, US
Resting place	Bellevue Cemetery
Spouse(s)	Eliza Montgomery ​ ​ (m. 1827; died 1829)​ Mary Fry Lawrence ​ (m. 1834)​
Children	Letitia Green Stevenson Julia Green Scott
Education	Transylvania University Centre College
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Lewis Warner Green (January 28, 1806 – May 26, 1863) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator, and academic administrator. He was the president of Hampden–Sydney College, Transylvania University, and Centre College for various periods between 1849 and 1863. Born in Danville, Kentucky, baptized in Versailles, and educated in Woodford County, Green enrolled at Transylvania University but transferred to Centre College to complete his education. He graduated in 1824 as one of two members of the school's first graduating class. He enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831 but returned to Kentucky in 1832 before graduating. After one year as a professor at Hanover College, he returned to Centre in 1839. He left again the next year for a position at Western Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where he spent six years. He then went to Baltimore to preach full-time, though he resigned after just over a year and a half due to poor health.

Green was elected president of Hampden–Sydney College in January 1849. He was recruited by numerous other institutions after his eight-year term. Among these institutions was Transylvania, which recruited him to their presidency shortly following the establishment of a normal school by the Kentucky General Assembly. The bill that created the normal school was repealed after a year and a half and he resigned in late 1857. Green was elected president of Centre College that year and entered office in January 1858. After leading the school through the start of the Civil War, he died in office in 1863 from an illness which he caught after helping wounded soldiers. He was buried in Danville's Bellevue Cemetery. He was a member of the Stevenson political family through the marriage of his daughter; as a result, he was the father-in-law of vice president Adlai Stevenson I, the great-grandfather of Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson II, and the great-great-grandfather of senator Adlai Stevenson III.