Roger Sherman Greene, the son of David C. and Mary Jane Forbes Greene, was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1881. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard in 1901 and an A.M. degree from the same university in 1902.
Immediately upon graduation, Mr. Greene entered the service of the Department of State, where from 1903 to 1914 he served as consul to various foreign countries. These posts included: vice consul and deputy consul general at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1903-1904; vice consul at Nagasaki, Japan, 1904-1905; vice consul and deputy consul at Kobe, Japan, 1905; commercial agent and later consul at Vladivostok, Russia, 1905-1907; consul at Dalny, Manchuria, 1907-1909; consul at Harbin, China, 1909-1911; and consul general at Hankow, China, 1911-1914.
In 1914, Mr. Greene left the Department of State and became director, and later general director, in China of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. He served in this capacity until 1927, when he was appointed vice president in the Far East for the Rockefeller Foundation, a position he held until 1929. He then served as a director of the China Medical Board Inc., from 1929 to 1935. From 1927 to 1935, he was also the acting director of the Peiping Union Medical College.
Mr. Greene returned to the United States and from 1938 to 1941 served as chairman of the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression. During 1939, he moved to Chicago and became director of the World Citizens Association and then from 1940 through 1941 he served as the director of the Washington office of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. From 1942 to 1944, he was employed as a consultant to the Division of Cultural Relations of the Department of State. After leaving this position, he retired to Worcester, Massachusetts where he died on March 29, 1947.
Roger S. Greene married Miss Kate Brown of Worcester, Massachusetts on May 8, 1920. They had two children.
