Background
Greene was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire. He was the brother of Nathaniel Greene, in whose care he was placed on the death of his father in 1812, and who sent him to the Bradford Academy.
Greene was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire. He was the brother of Nathaniel Greene, in whose care he was placed on the death of his father in 1812, and who sent him to the Bradford Academy.
Bradford College.
He then had brief engagements managing and editing the Taunton Free Press (1825) and then publishing the Boston Spectator (1826). Greene settled in Philadelphia in 1827, and with James A. Jones started the National Palladium, in which the presidential candidacy of Andrew Jackson was vigorously advocated. He founded the Boston Post in 1831 and conducted it until 1875.
Greene served in the Massachusetts Legislature, and was naval officer of Boston from 1853 to 1861.
He died in Boston on September 27, 1886.