Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800 – April 1873) was an American politician from New York.
Early life
Livingston was the son of Cornelia Van Horne Livingston (b. 1759) and
Philip Peter Livingston (1740–1810), a
New York State Senator
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate.
Partisan compo ...
from 1789 to 1793 and from 1795 to 1798.
His surviving brother was Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1792–1868),
the father of 9 children.
He was a grandson of
Peter Van Brugh Livingston
Peter Van Brugh Livingston (bp. November 3, 1710 Albany, New York – December 28, 1792 Elizabethtown, Union County, New Jersey) was a Patriot during the American Revolution who was a wealthy merchant and who served as the 1st New York State Tre ...
(1710–1792), a
New York State Treasurer, and a great-great-grandson of
Robert Livingston (1654–1728), the 2nd Lord of
Livingston Manor.
Career
Livingston was a member of the
New York State Assembly (New York Co.) in
1829
Events
January–March
* January 19 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's '' Faust'' premieres in Braunschweig.
* February 27 – Battle of Tarqui: Troops of Gran Colombia and Peru battle to a draw.
* Marc ...
,
1830,
1831
Events
January–March
* January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti- slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.
* January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Ky ...
,
1832
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.
* January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white plant ...
and
1833; and was
Speaker
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Society and politics
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** I ...
in 1832 and 1833. He was a
Jacksonian.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate (1st D.) from 1834 to 1837, sitting in the
57th,
58th,
59th and
60th New York State Legislature
The 60th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to May 16, 1837, during the fifth year of William L. Marcy's governorship, in Albany.
Background
Under the provisi ...
s.
Personal life
He married Margaret Allen (1804–1873),
and their only child was:
* Catherine Ludlow Livingston (1825–1883), who married to Walter Langdon (1822–1894), the son of Walter Langdon (1788–1847) and
Dorothea Astor (1795–1874), in 1847.
After her death, she was buried at St. James's Church in
Hyde Park, New York
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after her death.
Livingston died in April 1873.
References
External links
Charles L. Livingstonat
Political Graveyard
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1800 births
1873 deaths
Speakers of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) state senators
Charles Ludlow
19th-century American legislators