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William Livingston (November 30, 1723 – July 25, 1790) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolutionary War. As a New Jersey representative in the Continental Congress, he signed the Continental Association and the United States Constitution.
William Livingston (born Nov. 30, 1723, Albany, N.Y. [U.S.]—died July 25, 1790, Elizabeth, N.J.) was the first Revolutionary governor of New Jersey. A graduate of Yale, Livingston was admitted to the New York bar in 1748 and served briefly in the New York legislature (1759–60).
A noted lawyer, essayist, and political polemicist from New York, William Livingston was also elected the first Governor of New Jersey. Livingston also served as a New Jersey delegate to both the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention , and one term as a member of the General Assembly of the Colony of New York from 1759 to 1761.
Nov 7, 2018 · William Livingston’s American Revolution explores this question by examining the role of the forgotten founding fathers, the middle managers who worked on the ground to actually get things done. They rooted out loyalists, raised militia units, battled recalcitrant legislators, and secured needed supplies to help Washington’s army succeed.
William Livingston was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolutionary War. As a New Jersey representative in the Continental Congress, he signed the Continental Association and the United States Constitution.
William Livingston 1723 – 1790. I was a delegate to the Continental Congress, a General of the New Jersey Militia, and the first Governor of New Jersey. Before the American Revolution, I had spent about twenty years in New York city as a lawyer and a politician, and I’d written many satirical essays which often made people mad at me.
Born in 1723, Livingston was a New York lawyer, politician, and author of poems and political tracts; some said his writing ability rivaled Jefferson’s. Moving to Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1772, he sought a scholarly retirement in a Georgian-style home he called Liberty Hall.
