Philp Livingston was born in Albany, New your back in 1716 to Philip and Catherine. He graduated from Yale College in 1737. He returned to Albany to serve a mercantile apprenticeship with his father. He moved to New York City pursuing a career in the import business trading with the British sugar islands in the West Indies.
He was a promoter of the founding of Kings College and helped organize the New York Public Library in 1754. He founded the first Chamber of Commerce in 1770. He served as a member of the provincial House of Representatives from 1763-69 and in 1768 served as Speaker. After the adoption of the New York State Constitution, he was appointed to the New York State Senate for the southern district in 1777. He died in 1778, he was 62.
What you may not know about Philip is that he was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from 1775-78, and signed the Declaration of Independence.
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