Henry W. Livingston
(1768-1810)
BIRTH
June 12, 1768
PLACE
Livingston, Province of New York, British America
DEATH
December 22, 1810
PLACE
Livingston, New York, U.S.
FAMILY
BROTHER
Schuyler Livingston
(1772-1809)
BROTHER
Robert L. Livingston
(1775-1843)
SISTER
Harriet Livingston Fulton
(1783-1826)
SISTER
Gertrude Livingston Cutting
(c. 1776–1864)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Henry Walter Livingston (1768–1810) was a New York lawyer, judge and Federalist congressman. Born at Linlithgo and educated at Yale, he practiced law in New York City before serving as Gouverneur Morris’s private secretary in Paris from 1792 to 1794. He later became a Columbia County common-pleas judge and served in the state Assembly. He represented New York in Congress from 1803 to 1807. His surviving letters concern elections, mortgages and other business matters.
EARLY LIFE
Henry W. Livingston was born on Jun 12, 1768 in Livingston, Province of New York, British America. The record identifies Walter Livingston and Cornelia Schuyler as the parents or immediate family members associated with this person. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Henry W. Livingston with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Henry W. Livingston died on Dec 22, 1810 in Livingston, New York, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Henry Walter Livingston was a New York lawyer, judge and Federalist congressman. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1802 and again in 1810. He was elected as a Federalist to the 8th and 9th Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1807. Henry W. Livingston represented New York in Congress from 1803 to 1807. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Henry Walter Livingston, the New York congressman and Gouverneur Morris’s former secretary. The Morris biography is related reading. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005 — United States Congress. [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The Livingstons of Livingston Manor — Edwin Brockholst Livingston. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons — Clare Brandt. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
4. The Livingston Family in America and Its Scottish Origins — Florence Van Rensselaer. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life — William Howard Adams. [Related biography of his employer] Find on Amazon
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