He moved with his family to Portland, Oregon, in 1964 to start and later direct the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research.

[citation needed] Greenlick first got involved in politics at the age of nine by volunteering for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1944 presidential campaign.

He ran again in 2002 after redistricting and defeated Erik T. Hartung by nearly 20 points (Witt had retired to run for the Oregon Senate).

[3] Greenlick represented Northwest Portland and northern Washington County, which includes Helvetia, Bethany and Cedar Mill.

[citation needed] Representative Greenlick proposed to make nicotine a Schedule III controlled substance (along with LSD).