Biography

07/28/1799 - 01/28/1872

LIVINGSTON, Walter Copake, a Representative from Lehigh County; born, July 28, 1799 in Claverack, Columbia County, NY; attended, Jesuit College, Montreal; graduated, Yale College, 1819; studied, law school of Judge Reeve; elected, New York Assembly (1824); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1828-1829 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1829); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1831-1834); appointed, United States Consol to Marseilles, France (1835-1840); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1839); merchant; president, Northampton Water Company; died, January 28, 1872 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.