Alfred Burton Greenwood (July 11, 1811 – October 4, 1889) was an American attorney, judge, and a politician who served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1853 to 1859.

When Arkansas seceded from the Union in the Civil War, he was elected to the Confederate Congress as a Democrat.

Greenwood’s detachment led a grouping of 1,000 native Americans from Georgia and Tennessee to Oklahoma.

[1] In 1856, he won re-election to his third term after a bitter debate at the local Democratic Convention, which took 276 ballots before finally settling on Greenwood over Thomas Hindman.

[4] During his final term in office, he served as chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.

[1] He was offered the role of U.S. Secretary of the Interior after Jacob Thompson resigned, but declined the position.