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Philip Livingston.
American politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (1716-1778)
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About Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and slave trader from New York City. He represented New York at the October 1774 First Continental Congress, where he favored imposing economic sanctions upon Great Britain as a way of pressuring the British Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts. Livingston was also a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, and signed the Declaration of Independence.
Everything about Philip Livingston →- Occupation
- merchant, politician
- Position held
- member of the State Senate of New York
- Citizenship
- United States, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- January 15, 1716
- Died
- June 12, 1778