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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyLIVINGSTON, William
(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.
Carney, Thomas Edward. “A Religious Conflict in Education: The King’s College Controversy as a Historical Precedent to Separation of Church and State, 1752-1756.” Ph.D. diss., 2001.
Dillon, Dorothy Rita. The New York Triumvirate; A Study of the Legal and Political Careers of William Livingston, John Morin Scott, William Smith, Jr
. 1949. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, [1968].
Klein, Milton M. (Milton Martin). The American Whig: William Livingston of New York
. 1990. Reprint, New York: Garland Publishers, 1993.
Levine, Michael Lewis. “The Transformation of a Radical Whig Under Republican Government: William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, 1776-1790.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 1975.
Livingston, William. A Funeral Eloguim on the Reverend Mr. Aaron Burr, Late President of the College of New Jersey
. New-York, printed; Boston: Reprinted by Green and Russell... for J. Winter..., 1758.
———. Israel Putnam; Pioneer, Ranger, and Major-General, 1718-1790
. New York, London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901.
———. The Papers of William Livingston
. Carl E. Prince, editor; Dennis P. Ryan, associate editor; Pamela B. Schafler and Donald W. White, assistant editors. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1979-1988.
———. Philosophic Solitude, or, The Choice of a Rural Life: A Poem, by a gentleman educated at Yale College
. 1762. Reprint, New-York: Printed by John Holt..., [1769].
———. A Review of the Military Operations in North-America, From the Commencement of the French Hostilities on the Frontiers of Virginia in 1753, to the Surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756. Interspersed with Various Observations, Characters, and Anecdotes; Necessary to Give Light into the Conduct of American Transactions in General; and More Especially into the Political Management of Affairs in New York. In a letter to a nobleman
. London: Printed, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. 1757. Reprint, New-England: N.p., 1758.
———. Unpublished Correspondence of William Livingston and John Jay; Introduction and notes, by Frank Monaghan
. Newark, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1934.
Prince, Carl E. William Livingston, New Jersey’s First Governor
. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.
Sedgwick, Theodore. A memoir of the life of William Livingston, Member of Congress in 1774, 1775, and 1776: Delegate to the federal convention in 1787, and governor of the state of New-Jersey from 1776 to 1790 ; With extracts from his correspondence, and notices of various members of his family
. New-York: J. & J. Harper, 1833.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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