LIVINGSTON, Edward, (brother of Robert
R. Livingston and cousin of Philip Livingston and William Livingston), a
Representative from New York and a Representative and a Senator from Louisiana;
born in Clermont, Livingston Manor, N.Y., May 28, 1764; attended private
schools; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in
1781; studied law in Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1785 and commenced
practice in New York City; elected from New York to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Congresses (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1801); chairman, Committee on Commerce and
Manufactures (Fifth Congress); United States district attorney 1801-1803; mayor
of New York City 1801-1803; moved to New Orleans, La., in 1804; 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.
-- Biographical
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