Henry Brockholst Livingston

For the U.S. Representative, see Henry W. Livingston
Henry Brockholst Livingston
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
In office
January 20, 1807 – March 18, 1823
Nominated by Thomas Jefferson
Preceded by William Paterson
Succeeded by Smith Thompson
Personal details
Born November 25, 1757
New York, New York
Died March 18, 1823(1823-03-18) (aged 65)
Washington, D.C.
Religion Presbyterian

Henry Brockholst Livingston (November 25, 1757 – March 18, 1823) was an American Revolutionary War officer, a justice of the New York Court of Appeals and eventually an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Born in New York, New York to Susanna French and William Livingston,[1] he received a B.A. from the College of New Jersey, (now Princeton University), in 1774. He inherited the Livingston estate, Liberty Hall (at modern-day Kean University), and retained it until 1798. During the American Revolutionary War he was a lieutenant colonel of the New York Line, serving on the staff of General Philip Schuyler from 1775 to 1777 and as an Aide-de-Camp to Major General Benedict Arnold at the Battle of Saratoga. He was a Private secretary to John Jay, then U.S. Minister to Spain from 1779 to 1782. Livingston was briefly imprisoned by the British in New York in 1782. After the war, Livingston read law to enter the Bar in 1783, and was in private practice in New York City from 1783 to 1802.

Livingston served as a justice on the Supreme Court of New York from 1802 to 1807, where he authored a famous dissent in the case of Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. R. 175 (1805). Two years later, on November 10, 1806, Livingston received a recess appointment from Thomas Jefferson to a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States vacated by William Paterson. Formally nominated on December 15, 1806, Livingston was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 17, 1806, and received his commission on January 16, 1807. He served on the Supreme Court from then until his death in 1823. During his Supreme Court tenure, Livingston's votes and opinions often followed the lead of Chief Justice John Marshall. In that era, Supreme Court Justices were required to ride a circuit; in Justice Livingston's case, he presided over cases in New York State.

Livingston was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. [2]

Livingston died in Washington, D.C. His remains are interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y.[3] He married three times, his wives were Catherine Keteltas (1761-c1801), Ann N. Ludlow (1775-1807), and Catherine Seaman (1775-1859), widow of John Kortright.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ William Nelson (1876). Biographical Sketch of William Colfax, Captain of Washington's Body Guard.
  2. ↑ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
  3. ↑ Henry Brockholst Livingston at Find a Grave.
  4. ↑ The letters of Moore Furman, deputy quarter-master general of New Jersey in the revolution,. New York: Pub. for the Society by F. H. Hitchcock. 1912. p. 9. Retrieved 3 October 2015.

Further reading

  • Abraham, Henry J. (1992). Justices and Presidents: A Political History of Appointments to the Supreme Court (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506557-3. 
  • Bibliography on William Patterson at Supreme Court Historical Society.
  • Cushman, Clare (2001). The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789–1995 (2nd ed.). (Supreme Court Historical Society, Congressional Quarterly Books). ISBN 1-56802-126-7. 
  • Frank, John P. (1995). Friedman, Leon; Israel, Fred L., eds. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court: Their Lives and Major Opinions. Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 0-7910-1377-4. 
  • Hall, Kermit L., ed. (1992). The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505835-6. 
  • Martin, Fenton S.; Goehlert, Robert U. (1990). The U.S. Supreme Court: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books. ISBN 0-87187-554-3. 
  • Urofsky, Melvin I. (1994). The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 590. ISBN 0-8153-1176-1. 
  • Warren, Charles. (1928) The Supreme Court in United States History, 2 vols. at Google books.
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William Paterson		 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
November 10, 1806 – March 18, 1823 		Succeeded by
Smith Thompson
 
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