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Livingston, Robert R

lawyer, jurist, diplomat, congressman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1747. In 1775 he was elected to the assembly from Dutchess county, N.

Y.; the same year he was sent as a delegate to the continental congress, serving until 1777; and was member of the committee for draughting the declaration of independence. He was also a delegate from 1779 to 1781, and in the lata ter year was appointed secretary for foreign affairs. He was appointed chancellor of New York under the new constitution, and filled that office until 1801. In 1801 he accepted the appointment of minister to France. He introduced merino sheep and gypsum into New York. He published an oration delivered before the Cincinnati society in 1787, and Essays on Agriculture; and Essays on Sheep. He died Feb. 26, 1813, in Clermont, N. Y.