Daniel Joseph Greene

{{short description|Newfoundland Premier 1894-1895}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Daniel Joseph Green

| honorific-suffix =

| image = Daniel Joseph Greene.png

| birth_date = 1850

| birth_place = St. John's, Newfoundland

| residence =

| death_date = December 12, 1911 (aged 61)

| death_place = St. John's

| order =

| assembly = Newfoundland and Labrador House of

| constituency_AM = Ferryland

| term_start = November 9, 1878

| term_end = October 28, 1897

| predecessor = position establishedbecame a 3 member district in the 1878 election

| successor = George Shea

| office1 = Premier of Newfoundland

| term_start1 = December 13, 1894

| term_end1 = February 8, 1895

| predecessor1 = Augustus F. Goodridge

| successor1 = Sir William Whiteway

| governor1 = Sir John Terence Nicholls O'Brien

| monarch1 = Victoria

| party = Liberal (historical)

| spouse = Anastasia Greene

}}

Daniel Joseph Greene (c. 1850 – December 12, 1911) was a Newfoundland politician who briefly served as the Colony's Premier.

A native of St. John's,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFxHAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA13-PA250|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|date=1884|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=250|language=en}} he studied law at Laval University and became a lawyer. Daniel Greene was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1875 and became Leader of the Opposition in 1887. In 1889 he became a minister in the government of Liberal{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=George W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxK0A0FUvZgC&pg=PA365|title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|last2=Cook|first2=Ramsay|last3=Hamelin|first3=Jean|date=1966|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-8020-3998-9|page=365|language=en}} Premier Sir William Whiteway. A year after the controversial 1893 elections Whiteway's government was dismissed by the governor Arthur Murray due to petitions alleging corrupt electoral practices. Murray appointed Tory leader Augustus F. Goodridge as the new premier and helped the minority government stay in office. However, Goodridge resigned in December 1894 after the collapse of two banks.

Greene had become acting Liberal leader due to the disbarment of Whiteway from holding electoral office. On December 13, 1894, following the collapse of Goodridge's government, Greene was sworn in as premier.

Green's government promptly passed the Disabilities Removal Act allowing candidates who had been disqualified because of election irregularities in 1893 to seek election again. Specifically, it allowed Whiteway to return as Premier which occurred on February 8, 1895 when Greene resigned.

He died in St. John's in 1911.

His nephew Joseph M. Greene also served in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932. Joseph Green's son, James Greene, was leader of the Opposition Conservative Party from 1960 to 1966.