Succeeded by Joseph M. Blake | Preceded by Dutee J. Pearce Parents Perry Greene Name Albert Greene | |
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Governor James FennerLemuel H. ArnoldJohn B. FrancisWilliam Sprague IIISamuel Ward King Cousins Martha Washington Greene, Cornelia Lott Green | ||
Previous office Senator (RI) 1845–1851 | ||
Albert Collins Greene (April 15, 1792 – January 8, 1863) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island. He served as a United States Senator and Attorney General of Rhode Island.
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Early life
Greene was born in East Greenwich, Rhode Island and graduated from Kent Academy. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and completed his legal training at the Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut from 1812-1813. He commenced the practice of law in East Greenwich.
Political career
He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1815-1825, serving as speaker of the State House from 1821-1825. He was brigadier general, and then major general, of the Fourth Brigade of State Militia from 1816-1823. He served as attorney general of Rhode Island from 1825-1843. In 1827, he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Brown University.
Greene was a member of the Rhode Island Senate from 1843-1844, and was elected as a Whig candidate to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1851; he was not a candidate for reelection, and was elected to the Rhode Island Senate in 1851 and 1852. In 1857, he was again a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
He retired from public life, and died in Providence; interment was in Grace Church Cemetery.
Family life
Greene was the son of Perry Greene and Elizabeth (Belcher) Greene. On May 16, 1814, Greene married Catherine Celia Greene, daughter of Rhode Island Governor William Greene. He and Catherine had five children: William Albert Greene, Mary Eliza Greene, Ann Frances Greene, Catharine Celia Greene and Susan Eliza Greene. Their daughter Catherine married Richard Ward Greene, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. After his wife Catherine died, he married Julia Bourne on August 22, 1841.
Greene's uncle was Nathanael Greene, a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.