15 Facts About Philip Livingston

Philip Livingston was an American Founding Father, merchant, politician, and slave trader from New York City.

Philip Livingston graduated from Yale College in 1737 and returned to Albany to undergo a mercantile apprenticeship under his father.

Philip Livingston subsequently moved to New York City and pursued a career in the import business, trading with the British West Indies.

Philip Livingston speculated heavily in real estate and the slave trade, financing at least fifteen slave-trading voyages, which transported hundreds of enslaved Africans to New York.

Philip Livingston served as an alderman of the East Ward from 1754 to 1762.

Philip Livingston became involved in the establishment of King's College and helped to organize the New York Society Library in 1754.

Philip Livingston was one of the first governors of New York Hospital.

In 1754, Philip Livingston went as a delegate to the Albany Congress.

Philip Livingston became an active promoter of efforts to raise and fund troops for the war.

Philip Livingston served as a member of the provincial house of representatives from 1763 to 1769 and in 1768 served as speaker.

Philip Livingston joined New York City's Committee of Correspondence to continue communication with leaders in the other colonies, and New York City's Committee of Sixty.

Philip Livingston was selected as one of the delegates to the Continental Congress.

Philip Livingston suffered from dropsy, and his health deteriorated in 1778.

Philip Livingston died suddenly while attending the sixth session of Congress in York, Pennsylvania, and is buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery there.

When Philip Livingston died, his estate was insufficient to meet his debts, and his executors renounced the administration of the estate.