| 词条 | Walter Livingston |
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| name = Walter Livingston | image = WalterLivingston.jpg | birth_date = November 27, 1740 | birth_place = Clermont Manor, Clermont, Columbia County, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|1797|5|14|1740|11|27}} | death_place = New York City | spouse = Cornelia Schuyler | children = Henry Walter Livingston | parents = Robert Livingston Maria Thong | relatives = Livingston family | office = 1st Speaker of the New York State Assembly | term_start = 1777 | term_end = 1779 | predecessor = Position established |successor = Evert Bancker }} Walter Livingston (November 27, 1740 – May 14, 1797) was an American merchant, lawyer and politician. Early lifeHe was a son of Robert Livingston (1708–1790) and Maria Thong Livingston (1711–1765), a granddaughter of Governor Rip Van Dam. He was a nephew of Philip Livingston (1716–1778)[1] and the grandson of Philip Livingston (1686–1749) and Catharina Van Brugh. He was the great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder (1654–1728), a New York colonial official, fur trader, and businessman who was granted a patent to 160,000 acres (650 km²/ 250 sq mi) along the Hudson River, and becoming the first lord of Livingston Manor. His paternal great-grandmother was Alida Schuyler (b. 1656), the daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler and the widow of Nicholas Van Rensselaer. His great-grandparents were Pieter Van Brugh (1666–1740) and Sara Cuyler. LifeHe was a delegate to the Provincial Convention held in New York in April and May 1775, and a member of the First New York Provincial Congress from May to November 1775. He served as Commissary of Stores and Provisions for the Department of New York from July 17, 1775, until September 7, 1776, when he resigned. He was Deputy Commissary General of the Northern Department in 1775 and 1776.[1] In 1777, he was appointed a county judge for Albany County. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1777 to 1779 and 1784–85, and served as Speaker from 1777 to 1779. In 1784, he was a member of the New York and Massachusetts Boundary Commission. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York from 1784 to 1787.[1] He was a member from New York of the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785. In 1785, he was appointed Commissioner of the United States Treasury.[1] Personal lifeHe married Cornelia Schuyler (1746–1822), daughter of Pieter P. Schuyler (1723–1753) and Gertrude Schuyler (1724–1813), his cousin. Cornelia was the granddaughter of Pieter Schuyler (1657–1724), the first mayor of Albany. Their children include:
He was buried at Trinity Churchyard in New York. His home at Linlithgo in Columbia County, New York, known as Teviotdale, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[3] DescendantsRobert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. (b. 1943), a Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana that was the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995–1999, is Walter Livingston's great-great-great-great-grandson.[4]Through his daughter Gertrude, he was the grandfather of Fulton Cutting (1816–1875), who married Elise Justine Bayard (1823–1852) and were the parents of William Bayard Cutting (1850–1912) and [Robert Fulton Cutting]] (1852–1934).[5] References
1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title=LIVINGSTON, Walter - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000373|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=16 September 2016}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Reynolds|first=Cuyler|title=Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNIUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1329|year=1914|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company|page=1329}} 3. ^{{NRISref|2009a}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://thehill.com/cover-stories/guess-whos-coming-to-the-firm-2007-12-11.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-01-15 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706204516/http://thehill.com/cover-stories/guess-whos-coming-to-the-firm-2007-12-11.html |archivedate=2008-07-06 |df= }} 5. ^{{cite news | title=W.B. CUTTING DIES ON TRAIN | work=The New York Times | date=2 Mar 1912 | accessdate=February 18, 2013 | pages=1|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/03/02/100520219.html?pageNumber=1}}
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