Robert R. Livingston.
(1746-1813) American lawyer, politician, diplomat and founding father
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About Robert R. Livingston
Robert Robert Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman, but was recalled by the state of New York before he could sign the document. Livingston administered the oath of office to George Washington when he assumed the presidency April 30, 1789. Livingston was also elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801.
Everything about Robert R. Livingston →- Occupation
- lawyer, diplomat, judge, amateur scientist
- Position held
- United States Ambassador to France, United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Recorder of New York City, ambassador
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- November 27, 1746
- Died
- February 26, 1813