Robert R Livingston
BIRTH
Nov 27, 1746
New York City, New York
DEATH
February 26, 1813
Clermont, New York
FAMILY
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Livingston, Robert R
(1746-1813)
Robert R. Livingston was a New York statesman and member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the nation's first secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation and administered George Washington's presidential oath.
GRAVE:
CHURCH
Clermont Livingston vault, St. Paul's Church
St. Paul's Church, 39 Woods Road, Tivoli, NY 12583, United States
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WIFE
Mary Stevens
(1752-1814)
Elizabeth Stevens Livingston
(1780-1829)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Clermont State Historic Site | 1 Clermont Ave, Germantown, NY 12526 | PARK |
DIED:
Clermont, New York
Feb 26, 1813
Robert R Livingston was born on Nov 27, 1746 in New York City, New York. 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 Robert R 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. Robert R Livingston died on Feb 26, 1813 in Clermont, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.