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  Edward Livingston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Livingston graduated from Princeton University in 1781, was admitted to the bar in 1785, and began to practice law in New York City, rapidly rising to distinction.
Livingston was the leading member of a commission appointed to prepare a new civil code, which for the most part the legislature adopted in 1825, and the most important chapters of which, including all those on contract, were prepared by Livingston alone.
Livingston was again a representative in Congress during preliminary work in the preparation of a new civil code, done by James Brown and Moreau Lislet, who in 1808 reported a "Digest of the Civil Laws now in force in the Territory of Orleans with Alterations and Amendments adapted to the present Form Of Government”.
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 EDWARD LIVINGSTON - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD LIVINGSTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Livingstons case was damaged by President Jefferson, who believed that Livingston had favored Burr in the presidential election of i8oo, and that he had afterwards been a party to Burrs schemes.
During the war with England from 1812 to 1815 Livingston was active in rousing the mixed population of New Orleans to resistance.
The spirit of Livingstons code was remedial rather than vindictive; it provided for the abolition of capital punishment and the making of penitentiary labor not a punishment forced on the prisoner, but a matter of his choice and a reward for good behaviour, bringing with it better accommodations.
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 Livingston, Guatemala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Livingston is the name of a town in Izabal department, Guatemala, at the mouth of the Río Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras.
Livingston is noted for its unusual mix of Garífuna, Maya, and Latino people and culture.
Livingston is named after USA jurist and politician Edward Livingston who wrote the Livingston Codes which were used as the basis for the laws of the liberal government of the United Provinces of Central America in the early 19th century.
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 Edward Livingston Biography / Biography of Edward Livingston Biography Biography
Edward Livingston (1764-1836), American jurist and statesman, was one of the great legal reformers of the 19th century.
Livingston's interest in and understanding of legal reform during his term in the Louisiana Legislature (1819-1821) led to his designation as one of the three codifiers of the state legal system.
In 1822 Livingston was elected to the U.S. Congress and reelected in 1824 and 1826.
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 The Livingston Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
LIVINGSTON, Philip, the signer, was born in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1716, son of Philip and Catherine (Van Brugh) Livingston.
Livingston became politically active in the era of the Stamp Act Revolt, and was probably (along with his brother, William), involved with the Sons of Liberty in New York.
Bob Livingston, former Chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, held the very same seat held in 1829 by Edward Livingston, the son of Robert R. Livingston.
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 Edward Livingston
Livingston's case was damaged by President Thomas Jefferson, who believed that Livingston had favored Aaron Burr in the presidential election of 1800, and that he had afterwards been a party to Burr's schemes.
Livingston was again a representative in Congress during 1823-1829, a Senator in 1829-31, and for two years (1831-33) Secretary of State under President Jackson.
Livingston's negotiations were conducted with excellent judgment, but the French Chamber of Deputies refused to make an appropriation to pay the first installment due under the treaty in 1833, relations between the two governments became strained, and Livingston was finally instructed to close the legation and return to America.
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 U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston; NOLA Live
The first Robert Livingston in American came from Scotland, and received a large land grant in upstate New York from King George I. The property comprised what is now Dutchess County along the banks of the Hudson River, not far from Albany.
It was 1686 and the manor and lordship of Livingston was born.
Edward served as mayor of New York City from 1801 to 1803 and went to New Orleans a year later.
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 ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT R. (1746-1813), American statesman, son of Robert R. Livingston (I718I775T a justice of the New York supreme court after 1763) and brother of Edward Livingston (see above), was born.
He was a member of the second, third and fourth Provincial Congresses of New York (1775-1777), was a delegate from New York to the Continental Congress in 1775-1777 and again in 1779-1780, and was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Livingston and George Clinton were chosen to represent New York state in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol, at Washington, D.C.; the statue of Livingston is by E. Palmer.
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 American President
Edward Livingston was born on May 26, 1764, in Clermont, New York, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University) in 1781.
Livingston served as both U.S. district attorney for New York and mayor of New York City (1800), resigning all offices while coping with yellow fever (1803).
Livingston would serve President Andrew Jackson as secretary of state from 1831 to 1833.
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 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Livingston was named after a well-known statesman and jurist of the day, Edward Livingston.
Livingston remained the sleepy county seat of a mainly rural county, with a declining population, until the early 1960's when effort were made to revitalize the town.
Livingston in 1930's was a serene and beautiful small town where an Englishman to whom I was showing the county decided he would wish to live and die.
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 Communication from Edward P. Livingston
Chancellor Livingston was desirous that steps should be taken early to procure funds, and at his suggestion authority was given to make inquiries relative to a loan; and I well recollect his stating, that a large one could be obtained in Europe, at an interest not exceeding five per cent.
Livingston saying, that if we did not want it, that the United States would gladly take it from us, particularly in case of a war, then very probable.
Livingston’s landed estates, and much of that belonging to General Lewis, were situated in the middle district, which went no further north than Greene and Columbia counties; still they hesitated not to support an undertaking promising great public good, though certainly detrimental to themselves.
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 ROBERT FULTON - MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/14/1814 CO-SIGNED BY: EDWARD P. LIVINGSTON , ROBERT L. LIVINGSTON , JOHN ...
Livingston was assigned one-half of her husband's steamboat interest and one-third of the net proceeds.
Edward Livingston was on General Andrew Jackson's staff in the War of 1812 and, on January 8, 1815, General Jackson fought from the deck of one of the company's steamboats at the Battle of New Orleans.
Because of Shreve's persistence, Livingston's case against him was dismissed in 1817, opening the way to free trade on the Mississippi.
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 Livingston County SE Michigan Cities
Livingston County is located in the SE section of Michigan's lower peninsula.
During the 1970's, Livingston County was the fastest growing county in Michigan, but 20,000 acres of public land were kept from development to retain the area's natural beauty.
The Livingston Centre is a fascinating collection of historical buildings gathered from various locations in the county.
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 Edward Livingston
LIVINGSTON, Edward, statesman, was born in Clermont, NY, 26 May 1764; son of Robert R. and Margaret (Beekman) Livingston, and grandson of Col. Henry and Janet (Livingston) Beckman.
He was a representative from New York in the 4th, 5th and 6th Congresses, 1795-1801, when he opposed the administration of President Washington, and instigated the investigation and proposed the resolution calling upon the President for a copy of the instructions given to John Jay in reference to the treaty with Great Britain.
Edward Livingston received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia in 1823, from Transylvania University in 1824 and from Harvard in 1834.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Livingston
Great-grandson of Robert Livingston (1654-1728); son of Robert Livingston (1708-1790); nephew of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston (1716-1778) and William Livingston; brother-in-law of
John Kean; granduncle of Henry Walter Livingston and Edward Philip Livingston; grandfather of Charles Ludlow Livingston.
Walter Livingston, Philip Livingston (1740-1810), Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston; great-great-grandfather of Henry Walter Livingston, Edward Philip Livingston and Charles Ludlow Livingston.
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 Edward Livingston Gerard
Edward L. Gerard was born in Port Jefferson, March 11th, 1836.
While the giddy and gay were whirling their leisure hours in the mazy dance, or frequenting places of amusement, young Edward was poring over his books and storing up the knowledge that has proved so indispensable in his after life.
In the infancy of that enterprise, its prosperity enlisted his uncle's sympathy, prayers, and beneficence; while Edward, in its success and firm establishment, in the beautiful little house of worship, and under able pastors, greatly rejoiced.
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 The Fred Parks Law Library -- Footnotes Newsletter Online
Livingston's work aimed at the prevention of crime, not the avenging of it, an extremely enlightened idea at the time.
Nevertheless, Livingston's proposed codes were published and well circulated in Europe and America, which is how they came to the attention of the early Texas codifiers.
22 Edward Livingston, A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana: Consisting of a Code of Crimes and Punishments, a Code of Procedure, a Code of Evidence, a Code of Reform and Prison Discipline, a Book of Definitions/Prepared under the authority of the law of the said state.
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 Livingston Parish Clerk of Court
Livingston Parish consists of 642 square miles on 410,880 acres and is 32 miles long by 30 miles wide.
Livingston Parish has eight municipalities, with Denham Springs being the largest.
As early evidence of his success, since his election, Livingston Parish has improved from last place in the timely reporting of election night returns to being among the top tier of parishes.
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 Beaumont & Tocqueville prison report excerpts: Page 3
Above is a sketch of Edward Livingston who is mentioned in this part of the Beaumont and Tocqueville report without his first name and mentioned with it elsewhere in the report.
Edward Livingston was born in 1764 at Livingston Manor, NY, the son of Robert R. Livingston.
Livingston justly remarks, that a prison, destined to punish, would soon cease to be a fearful object, if the convicts in it could entertain at their pleasure those social relations in which they delighted, before their entry into the prison.
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 Search Results for "Livingston"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Livingston, family of American statesmen, diplomats, and jurists.
Livingston, Robert R., 1654–1728, American colonist and statesman, 1654-1728: see under Livingston, family....
Livingston, Robert R., 1718–75, American statesman and jurist, 1718-75: see under Livingston, family....
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 Henry Livingston's Nieces and Nephews
Henry Alexander Livingston was a leading citizen of Poughkeepsie for approximately half a century.
At the death of Henry Alexander Livingston his house on the shore of the Hudson was occupied by his widow and unmarried daughters.
The farm was bounded on the east by the Post Road, on the west by Hudson's river, on the south by the land of edward James and on the north by the Livingston farm.
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1990-031 BRADLEY, MARY, AND BRADLEY, RUTH, Letters and photographs concerning Edward Livingston Trudeau and the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, 1893-1915 Biographical Mary Goodall Bradley and Ruth Goodall Bradley, daughters of Thomas Bradley of Philadelphia, were patients of Edward Livingston Trudeau at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the early 1890s.
Scope and contents This small collection of materials, 1893-1915, preserved by Mary and Ruth Bradley, documents the life of Edward Livingston Trudeau, physician and tuberculosis researcher, as well as the treatment of tuberculosis patients at Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the 1890s.
There are ten images of Edward Livingston Trudeau, 1893-1895, and two of his wife, Charlotte B. Trudeau, 1893 and undated, as well as five photographs of patients partaking of the outdoor cure for tuberculosis, 1893-1895.
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 LIGO Livingston Observatory News
Edward had earlier served simultaneously as the Mayor of New York City and the U.S. District Attorney for New York State.
Edward redeemed himself in the public's eyes through his authorship of the Louisiana civil code and by serving as Andrew Jackson's aide-de-camp during the War of 1812.
Congressman Livingston is Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
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 AllRefer.com - Edward Livingston Trudeau (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Edward Livingston Trudeau[trOO´dO] Pronunciation Key, 1848–1915, American physician, b.
As a result of taking care of his brother, who had tuberculosis, he developed the disease.
The sanatorium closed in 1954 for lack of patients, modern methods of early diagnosis and of treatment having drastically reduced incidence of the disease.
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 Livingston, Edward
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 The Edward Livingston Papers (C0280)
Cora Livingston Barton: 1806-1873 and Thomas Pennant Barton: 1803-1869 (daughter and son-in-law of Edward Livingston)
Henry Beekman: 1688-1776 (grandfather of Edward Livingston) and Gertrude Van Cortland Beekman (2nd wife of Henry Beekman)
For example, correspondence between Edward Livingston and anyone else will be found in his papers; correspondence between Janet Montgomery and John Cox, Jr., will be in Janet's papers, while correspondence between John Cox, Jr., and Robert R. Livingston would be found in Cox's.
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 Edward Livingston - Namesake for the County
LIVINGSTON, Edward (1764-1836), U.S. statesman, brother of the U.S. statesman and diplomat Robert R. Livingston, born in Clermont, N.Y.,
Livingston, Edward (1764-1836) Nephew of Philip Livingston and William
Livingston and William Livingston), a Representative from New York and a
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