Albert C. Greene

{{For|those of a similar name|Bert Greene (disambiguation)|Albert Green (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Albert Collins Greene

| image name = ACGreene.jpg

| jr/sr = United States Senator

| state = Rhode Island

| party = Whig

| term = March 4, 1845 – March 3, 1851

| preceded = John B. Francis

| succeeded = Charles T. James

| order2 = 49th

| office2 = Attorney General of Rhode Island

| term_start2 = 1825

| term_end2 = 1843

| governor2 = James Fenner
Lemuel H. Arnold
John B. Francis
William Sprague III
Samuel Ward King

| preceded2 = Dutee J. Pearce

| succeeded2 = Joseph M. Blake

| office3 = Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives

| term_start3 = 1815

| term_end3 = 1825

| preceded3 =

| succeeded3 =

| office4 = Member of the Rhode Island Senate

| term_start4 = 1843

| term_end4 = 1844

| preceded4 =

| succeeded4 =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1792|4|15}}

| birth_place = East Greenwich, Rhode Island, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1863|1|8|1792|4|15}}

| death_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.

| resting_place = Grace Church Cemetery

| citizenship = US

| parents = Perry Greene
Elizabeth (Belcher) Greene

| spouse = Catherine Celia Greene
Julia Bourne Greene

| children = William Albert Greene
Mary Eliza Greene
Ann Frances Greene
Catharine Celia Greene
Susan Eliza Greene

| relations = Nathanael Greene
William Greene
Richard Ward Greene

| alma_mater = Kent Academy
Litchfield Law School
Brown University

| profession = Politician, Lawyer

}}

Albert Collins Greene (April 15, 1792{{spaced ndash}}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.

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 to 1813.{{cite web|url= http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/1074|title= Albert Collins Greene|publisher = Litchfield Historical Society|access-date= March 27, 2014}} He commenced the practice of law in East Greenwich.

Political career

He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1815 to 1825, serving as speaker of the State House from 1821 to 1825.{{cite book|last=Capace|first=Nancy|title=The Encyclopedia of Rhode Island|year=2001|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|page=332|isbn=9780403096107|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHPYeCvnASoC&q=Albert+Collins+Greene+Rhode+Island+House+of+Representatives+1821-1825&pg=PA332}} He was brigadier general, and then major general, of the Fourth Brigade of State Militia from 1816 to 1823.{{cite book|last=Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry|title=Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry|year=1863|publisher=Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry|page=80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxNOAAAAYAAJ&q=Albert+Collins+Greene&pg=PA79}} He served as attorney general of Rhode Island from 1825 to 1843.{{cite book|last=Brown University and|first=Bates, Mrs. Louise Prosser|title=Historical catalogue of Brown University, 1764-1914|year=1914|publisher=The University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liwNAAAAYAAJ&q=Albert+Collins+Greene&pg=PA715}} In 1827, he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Brown University.{{cite book|last=Lanman|first=Charles|title=Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States: During Its First Century. From Original and Official Sources|year=1876|publisher=J. Anglim|page=173|isbn=9780722283950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSIoAAAAYAAJ&q=albert+c+greene+brown+university+1827&pg=PA173}}

Greene was a member of the Rhode Island Senate from 1843 to 1844, and was elected as a Whig candidate to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1845, to March 3, 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.{{cite web|url= http://library.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RHi-mss452.pdf|title= Guide to the Albert C. Greene Papers 1804-1863|publisher = Rhode Island Historical Society|access-date= March 27, 2014}}

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.{{cite web|url= http://records.ancestry.com/Albert_Collins_Greene_records.ashx?pid=41361075|title= Albert Collins Greene|publisher = Ancestry.com|access-date= March 27, 2014}}

Greene's uncle was Nathanael Greene, a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War.

References

==External links==

{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Greene, Nathanael|year=1900}}
[http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/materials/518 Portrait of Albert C. Greene]
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