Rhode Island lawyer and legislator.

Traveled to Philadelphia with Franklin (1775) and resided with the Franklins while attending school there. Practiced law in Providence, Rhode Island. Attorney general of Rhode Island (1794-97). United States Senator (1797-1801).

Son of William and Catherine (Ray) Greene of Warwick, Rhode Island. Educated at the Academy of Philadelphia and Yale (B.A. 1784). Married Mary Magdalen Flagg (1794); five children.