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Philip Livingston (
January 15,
1716 –
June 12,
1778), was an
American merchant and statesman from
New York City. He was a delegate for
New York to the
Continental Congress from
1775 to
1778, and signed the
Declaration of Independence.
Biography
Family history
He was born in
Albany, New York into the prominent Livingston family. His grandfather, who had immigrated to New York and controlled the large grant called
Livingston Manor, was known as
Robert, 1st Lord of the Manor. His father, also named
Philip was the 2nd
Lord of the Manor. This Philip was, however, his fourth son, and thus couldn't inherit. The wife of the 2nd
Lord of the Manor was a daughter of
Albany, New York Mayor
Pieter Van Brugh.
Career
Philip attended and graduated from
Yale College in
1737. He then settled in New York City and pursued a mercantile career. He became prominent as a merchant, and was elected Alderman in
1754. He was reelected to that office each year until
1763. Also in 1754, he went as a delegate to the
Albany Congress. There, he joined delegates from several other colonies to negotiate with Indians and discuss common plans for dealing with the
French and Indian War. They also developed a Plan of Union for the Colonies which was, however, rejected by
King George.
Livingston became an active promoter of efforts to raise and fund troops for the war, and in
1759 was elected to the
Province of New York assembly. He would hold that office until
1769, serving as Speaker in 1768. In October of
1765, he attended the
Stamp Act Congress, which produced the first formal protest to the crown as a prelude to the
American Revolution. Philip became strongly aligned with the radical block in that Congress. He joined New York City's
Committee of Correspondence to continue communication with leaders in the other colonies, and New York City's
Committee of Sixty.
When New York established the
New York Provincial Congress in
1775, he was the President. They also selected him as one of their delegates to the
Continental Congress that year. In the Congress, he strongly supported separation from
Great Britain and in
1776 joined other delegates in the Declaration of Independence.
After the adoption of the new New York State Constitution, he was elected to the state Senate in
1777, while continuing in the national congress. He died suddenly while attending the sixth session of Congress in
York, Pennsylvania and is buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery there. Livingston was a
Presbyterian, a
Mason, and an original promoter of King's College, which became
Columbia University.
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