[6] Greene served ten consecutive one-year terms in this capacity, retiring from public service in 1700 at the age of 80.
[4] He was one of the 10 Assistants named in the Royal Charter of 1663, which would become the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries.
During the devastating events of King Phillips War, Greene was one of 16 prominent inhabitants of the colony whose counsel was sought by the General Assembly.
In 1648 Greene was married to Ann Agnes Almy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
[7] Greene is also an ancestor of United States President Warren G. Harding,[9] as well as inventor Thomas A. Edison, Canadian politician and religious leader Nathan Eldon Tanner, cowboy artist and inventor Earl W. Bascom and Hollywood actor John Wayne.