Edward Livingston was a New York lawyer and mayor who moved to Louisiana, drafted its penal code, served in Congress, and as Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State from 1831 to 1833 wrote the Nullification Proclamation. In 1815 he was an aide to Andrew Jackson during the defense of New Orleans. Livingston served in the U.S. House from Louisiana from 1823 to 1829 and in the Senate from 1829 to 1831. Livingston died on May 23, 1836, five days before his 72nd birthday at Montgomery Place in Red Hook, New York, an estate left him by his sister, to which he had removed in 1831. The surviving summary is clearer about the date and setting than about the day-by-day medical course. A specific treatment history, exact final symptoms or unrecorded bedside conversations cannot be reconstructed confidently from it. The events of the earlier public career provide context for the final period but should not be mistaken for evidence of the immediate physical cause. Illnesses, injuries and deaths involving relatives or contemporaries are separate events. No further cause is inferred from age, occupation or the place of death. Where the account does not identify an illness or injury explicitly, the medical circumstances remain uncertain rather than a basis for a more elaborate final-days scene.