Edward
Livingston
Born in Clermont, Columbia County, New York
Ancestors 
Brother of
Janet (Livingston) Montgomery, Robert Livingston IV, Margaret (Livingston) Tillotson, Henry Beekman Livingston, Catherine (Livingston) Garretson, John Robert Livingston, Gertrude (Livingston) Lewis, Joanna Livingston, Alida (Livingston) Armstrong and Margaret Maria Livingston [half]
Husband of
Mary (McEvers) Livingston
— married
10 Apr 1788 (to 13 Mar 1801) [location unknown]
Husband of
Marie-Louise Magdalhine Valentine (D'Avezac de Castera) Livingston
— married
3 Jun 1805 in New Orleans
Father of
Charles Edward Livingston, Julia Eliza Montgomery Livingston, Lewis Livingston and Coralie (Livingston) Barton
Died
at age 71
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York, USA
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Edward Livingston served for Louisiana in the War of 1812
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| Preceded by 10th Secretary Martin Van Buren Preceded by Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny |
Edward Livingston 11th United States Secretary of State  US Senator (Class 2) from Louisiana[1]  |
Succeeded by 12th Secretary Louis McLane Succeeded by George A. Waggaman |
| Preceded by Richard Varick |
Edward Livingston
of New York City 1801-1803 |
Succeeded by DeWitt Clinton |
Biography
Edward Livingston is Notable.
Edward was born in 1764. He was the son of Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman. He passed away in 1836. [2]
Edward Livingston, 1764–1836, b. Livingston Manor, was the son of Robert R. Livingston (1718–75) and brother of Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813). He also established a reputation as a jurist and political figure. As a member (1795–1801) of the U.S. House of Representatives he opposed Jay's Treaty and the Alien and Sedition Acts. President Jefferson appointed him U.S. attorney for New York in 1801, the same year he became mayor of New York City. Because one of his clerks lost or misappropriated public funds, Livingston was forced to resign and to sell his property to pay off the debt. He then went to New Orleans. In the War of 1812 he became chairman of the committee on public defense and acted as aide-de-camp to Gen. Andrew Jackson. He was elected (1820) to the Louisiana legislature, and in 1821 was appointed to prepare a new code of laws and criminal procedure. Although the code was not adopted, its completeness and reasoned unity brought him international fame. He served again (1823–29) in the U.S. House of Representatives and then in the Senate (1829–31) before resigning to become Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson—for whom he wrote many important state papers, including the famous reply to the doctrine of nullification. As minister to France (1833–35), Livingston was unable to secure payment of American claims for spoliations resulting from the Napoleonic Wars.[3]
Legacy
- Four U.S. states have named counties in his memory. They are: Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, and Missouri.
Sources
- ↑ Resigned to become U.S. Secretary of State, vacant May 24, 1831 – November 15, 1831 when successor elected.
- ↑ Edward Livingston on Wikipedia
- ↑ http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/livingston-edward-livingston-1764-1836.html
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"The Livingstons of Livingston manor, being the history of that branch of the Scottish house of Callendar which settled in the English province of New York during the reign of Charles the Second; and also including an account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The nephew," a settler in the same province and his principal descendants Copyright, 1910 BY EDWIN BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON
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engaged in the practice of law and in the real estate business; author of a legal code for Louisiana; served at the Battle of New Orleans; member, State house of representatives 1820; elected from Louisiana to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1829, until May 24, 1831, when he resigned, having been appointed to the Cabinet; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson 1831-1833; Minister Plenipotentiary to France 1833-1835; inherited from his sister ‘‘Montgomery Place,’’ on the Hudson River, Barrytown, Dutchess County, N.Y., and died there May 23, 1836; interment in the family vault at ‘‘Clermont,’’ Columbia County, N.Y.; remains later removed to Rhinebeck, N.Y.
Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Hatcher, William. Edward Livingston: Jeffersonian Republican and Jacksonian Democrat. 1940. Reprint. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1970; Livingston, Edward. The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence. 2 vols. 1873. Reprint. Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1868.
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