Livingston, Edward
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.
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