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Name: robert livingston Hometown: New York City Date of Birth: 1746 Job Title: a Founding Father Education: King's College (Columbia College)

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Friend #1 Sam Adams //Friend #2 John Adams// //Friend #3 Ben Franklin// //Friend #4 Abigail A dams // Friend #5 Paul Revere

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Born in New York City in 1746 Robert Livingston was lawyer but then became a politician, diplomat and chancellor in state of New York. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and administered the presidential oath of office to George Washington in 1789. At age 66 he died in 1813 in Clermont New York.

Paragraph 2 Robert Livingston Jr. was born into a Rich family with much power in New York City on November 27 in 1746. When he was 15 he studied at King's College now known as Columbia University. After graduating he boarded on upon a career as a lawyer practicing for a time with John Jay his friend and King's College classmate before getting swept up in the colonial drive for independence.

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Robert Livingston served as a representative of the state of New York in the Continental Congress. During the Second Continental Congress he was one of five committee members the others being Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin , John Adams , and Roger Sherman who helped with the draft for Declaration of Independence in 1776. Later Robert was called away from the congress before sometime the document was signed.

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 * Wall Post #1: He was born on 27 1746 in New York
 * Wall Post #2: When he was 15 he studied at King’s College
 * Wall Post #3: Declaration of Independence on July 4 th 1776
 * Wall Post #4: He died on February 26th 1813