Peter Robert Livingston | The Papers of Martin Van Buren

Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847) was a lawyer and politician who represented Rhinebeck in the New York State Senate from 1815 to 1822 and from 1826 to 1829 as a member of the Bucktails. He also served a single term in the New York State Assembly in 1823 during which he was Speaker, and was also the Lieutentant Governor of New York in 1828. While he sided with MVB in many political questions early in their careers, he later became a member of the Whig Party, serving as a delegate to the Whig National Convention of 1839.

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Jesse Buel et al. to MVB, March 1828

The pending question of the Tariff, as regards its effects upon coarse wools and woolen fabricks, has been a subject of very anxious, but of perfectly friendly discussion among several citizens of this place and others casually present, and who, disclaiming every political & other foreign motive, and looking only to what we conceived to be the common good, beg leave to lay before you certain... Continue Reading

Sender: Jacob Sutherland, Sender: Charles Edward Dudley, Sender: Thomas Worth Olcott, Sender: Samuel Young, Sender: Peter Robert Livingston, Sender: Benjamin Knower, Sender: Peter Wendell, Sender: J.W.G. Townsend, Sender: John Woodworth, Sender: William Jerome

Recipient: MVB

MVB et al. to Republican electors of New York, 20 February 1816

At a period when we have just emerged from a bloody but succe[ss]ful and glorious struggle for national hono[r] and existence, an opportunity presents itself to express our gratitude for services rendered in that contest; and to proclaim to the world by our suffrages, that is the calm of peace we are not unmindful of the Statesman who was the shield of his country in the storm of war. In DANIEL D... Continue Reading

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MVB et al., Circular to the Republican Members Elect of the New York Senate, 13 November 1819

The Undersigned Republican Members of the Senate, avail themselves of the opportunity presented by their meeting, at this city, to address their Republican brethren elect, on the present state of the party. That there should, among Republicans, be occasional disputes about men, is to be expected; it is the ordinary and natural result, flowing from the free and honest exercise of opinion; but,... Continue Reading

Sender: MVB, Sender: Charles Edward Dudley, Sender: John Townsend, Sender: Samuel Young, Sender: Peter Robert Livingston

Address of Republican members of the New York Legislature, 9 April 1819

REPUBLICAN ADDRESS. At a meeting of the Republican members of the Legislature, held in the Senate chamber on the evening of the 9th April, 1819, Roger Skinner, Esq. of the Senate, was called to the chair, and Hart Weed, of the Assembly, appointed secretary. The committee appointed by the previous meeting to prepare an address, reported the following, which was unanimously adopted, and ordered to... Continue Reading

Sender: MVB, Sender: Samuel Young, Sender: Peter Robert Livingston

Address of the Republican Members of the New York Legislature, c14 April 1820

REPUBLICAN ADDRESS. The Republican Members of the Legislature of the State of New-York, to their Constituents. Fellow Citizens, Your Representatives, feeling with you a common interest in the public welfare, and firmly believing that the future peace and prosperity of the state, essentially depend on the result of the ensuing election, take the liberty, before their separation, to make a second... Continue Reading

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