The most obvious link between being Green and freethought is the most prominent freethinker of the nineteenth century.
His reputation is now enjoying a long overdue resurgence thanks in large part to Susan Jacob's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (a great book that I highly recommend).
Politically he was very progressive even by today's standards at a time when that was apparently possible within the GOP Republicans. His name of course was Robert GREEN Ingersoll.
Other possibilities for Green freethinkers were:
Thomas Hill Green - philosopher, political radical, and temperance campaigner
Ruth Hurmence Green - author of The Born Again Skeptic's Guide to the Bible
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