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Robert R. Livingston was an early American leader who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, first secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs (1781–83), and minister to France (1801–04). Born into a wealthy and influential New York family, Livingston was admitted to the bar in 1770.
Robert R. Livingston was the eldest son of Judge Robert Livingston (1718-1775) and Margaret Beekman Livingston. He had nine brothers and sisters, all of whom wed and made their homes on the Hudson River near the family seat at Clermont Manor. Livingston graduated from King's College, the predecessor to today's Columbia University, in 1764. He married Mary Stevens, daughter of Continental ...
Robert Livingston was born 1718 to Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and Margaret Howarden (1693-1758) and died 9 December 1775 Clermont Manor, Clermont, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Margaret Beekman (1724-1800) 8 December 1742 .
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 208161634. Source citation. Robert R. Livingston, the Judge was a leading Whig in New York in the years leading up to the American Revolution. He served as a Judge of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature, 1763–1775, and was a member of the New York General Assembly, 1759–1768. He was the only child of his ...
Brief Life History of Robert. When Robert Livingston was born on 24 July 1688, in Albany, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Livingston, was 33 and his mother, Alida Schuyler, was 32. He married Margaret Howarden on 11 November 1717, in Clermont, Columbia, New York, United States.
Livingston, Robert R. (1746-1813), U.S. statesman and diplomat, great-grandson of the prominent colonial figure Robert Livingston, born in New York City, and educated at King's College (now Columbia University). He was a lawyer and a member of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777 and from 1779 to 1781.
