William Livingston was born in Albany, New York back in 1723 to Philip and Catherine. He received his early education at the local schools. At 13 he was sent to live for a year and prepare for college with the Anglican missionary. He enrolled at Yale College in 1737 and graduated in 1741.
He moved to New York City where he studied law and became a law clerk first for the eminent lawyer James Alexander. He left Alexander’s office in 1746 and joined the office of William Smith Sr. He became a lower in 1748 and began his practice in New York City. in 1752 he founded a weekly journal, the Independent Reflector. The Reflector was New York’s fir serial non-newspaper publication and the only one being published in British North America at the time. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768 serving one term in the New York General Assembly. He moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1772. He was elected to serve as one of New Jersey’s delegates to the Continental Congress, serving from 1774 to 1776. He died in 1790, he was 66.
As with Philip Livingston, his brother, he also signed the United States Constitution.
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