1. Livigngston was born in Albany, NY in 1723.
2. He attended Yale for a career in law.
3. He was in the Colonial Assembly of New York for 2 years.
4. Livingston moved to New Jersey in 1760 and retired on some land he bought, until the Revolutionary upsurge brought him back into government and politics.
5. In 1774, he became a member of the Committee of Correspondence for his county.
6. From 1774 to 1776 he attended the First and Second Continental Congresses.
7. After that, he commanded the New York militia in 1776.
8. He was elected governor of New York in 1776, and was reelected every year until he died in 1790, at age 67.
9. Livingston was present during the signing of the Constitution.
10. He married Susanna French in 1742 and had 13 children.
11. He founded a weekly newspaper in 1952 called the Independent Reflector, and became famous for the political essays he wrote in it.
12. When he was 14, he spent a year with a missionary among the Mohawk Indians.
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