
1764 – Born on May 26th in Clermont, Columbia County, New York. A brilliant American jurist and legal reformer.
1781-1785 – He graduated at Princeton College and was admitted to the bar.
1788 – Married his first wife, Mary McEvers, on the 10th of April.
1795 – He was a Republican representative in Congress.
1801 – Livingston was appointed as the United States district-attorney for the state of New York, and while retaining that position was in the same year appointed mayor of New York City.
1805 – He married Madame Louise Moreau de Lassy.
1814-1815 – He acted as adviser and volunteer aide-de-camp to General Jackson, who was his personal friend.
1823-1833 – Livingston was again a representative in Congress, a Senator and the Secretary of State under President Jackson.
– The United States Ambassador to France.
1836 – Died on May 23rd in Montgomery Place, New York.