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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam LIVINGSTON
(1723-1790)
LIVINGSTON, William,
(brother of Philip Livingston and cousin of Edward Livingston and
Robert R. Livingston), a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Albany,
N.Y., November 30, 1723; was graduated from Yale College in 1741;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1748 and commenced practice
in New York; established and edited the Independent Reflector in
1752; a commissioner to adjust the boundary lines between New York
and Massachusetts in 1754 and New York and New Jersey in 1764;
member of the provincial assembly from Livingston Manor 1759-1761;
moved to Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), N.J., in 1772; Member of
the Continental Congress from July 23, 1774, to June 22, 1776;
commissioned a brigadier general of the New Jersey Militia on
October 28, 1775, and served until August 31, 1776, having been
elected Governor; served consecutively as Governor of New Jersey
from August 31, 1776, until his death; delegate to the Federal
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and one of the
signers of the Constitution; died in Elizabeth, Union County, N.J.,
July 25, 1790; interment in the family vault in Trinity Churchyard,
New York City; reinterred, 1846, in Brockholst Livingston vault,
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bibliography
Klein, Milton M. (Milton Martin). The American Whig: William
Livingston of New York. 1990. Reprint, New York: Garland
Publishers, 1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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