Robert Le Roy Livingston
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Robert Le Roy Livingston (born 1778; died 1836) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Claverack, Columbia County, he graduated from Princeton College and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Twelfth United States Infantry on January 14, 1799 and honorably discharged on June 15, 1800. He was elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and held office from March 4, 1809 until May 6, 1812, when he resigned. He participated in the War of 1812 and was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-third Infantry on May 29, 1812 and served until February 1, 1813, when he resigned. He died in 1836.
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- Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Dangerfield, George. Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1960.
