Charles L. Livingston

Livingston was the son of Cornelia Van Horne Livingston (b. 1759) and Philip Peter Livingston (1740–1810), a New York State Senator from 1789 to 1793 and from 1795 to 1798.{{cite book|last1=New York State|title=Laws of the State of New York Passed at the Thirty-Seventh Session of the Legislature|date=1814|publisher=H. C. Southwick|location=Albany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u304AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA111|accessdate=26 April 2017|language=en}} His surviving brother was Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1792–1868),{{cite web|title=Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1792-1868)|url=http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/peter-van-brugh-livingston-1792-1868|website=www.nyhistory.org|publisher=New-York Historical Society|accessdate=26 April 2017|language=en}}{{cite book|last1=Selleck, A.M.|first1=Rev. Charles Melbourne|title=Norwalk|date=1896|publisher=Charles M. Selleck|location=Norwalk, Connecticut|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA19|accessdate=26 April 2017|language=en}} the father of 9 children.

He was a grandson of Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710–1792), a New York State Treasurer, and a great-great-grandson of Robert Livingston (1654–1728), the 2nd Lord of Livingston Manor.

Livingston was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co.) in 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 and 1833; and was Speaker in 1832 and 1833. He was a Jacksonian.{{cite book|title=The New York Civil List: containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time|date=1858|publisher=Weed, Parsons and Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E3sFAAAAQAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E3sFAAAAQAAJ/page/n151 129]|accessdate=26 April 2017|language=en}}

He was a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) from 1834 to 1837, sitting in the 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th New York State Legislatures.{{cite web|title=Livingston, Charles Ludlow|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6ade8640-faa9-0133-570f-00505686a51c|website=NYPL Digital Collections|publisher=New York Public Library|accessdate=26 April 2017}}{{cite web|title=Princeton University Library Collection of General John Ross Delafield Family Materials (C1508) -- Livingston, Charles Ludlow, 1800–1873, Letter from H. Burkett Concerning a Damaged Horse |url=https://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C1508/c8|website=findingaids.princeton.edu|publisher=Princeton University Library|accessdate=26 April 2017}}

He married Margaret Allen (1804–1873),{{cite book|title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. XI|date=1880|publisher=New York Genealogical and Biographical Society|location=New York City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA17|accessdate=26 April 2017|language=en}} and their only child was:

• Catherine Ludlow Livingston (1825–1883), who married to Walter Langdon (1822–1894), the son of Walter Langdon (1788–1847) and Dorothea Astor (1795–1874), in 1847. After her death, she was buried at St. James's Church in Hyde Park, New York.

Livingston died in April 1873.

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• [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/livingston.html Charles L. Livingston] at Political Graveyard

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Category:1800 births

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Charles Ludlow

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