로버트 리빙스턴

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로버트 리빙스턴(Robert Livingston, 1746년 11월 27일 - 1813년 2월 26일 은 미국 뉴욕의 변호사, 정치인, 외교관이다. 미국 독립선언서를 기초하였다.

Robert Robert Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York, as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor" after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman, but was recalled by the state of New York before he could sign the document. Livingston administered the oath of office to George Washington when he assumed the presidency April 30, 1789. Livingston was also elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801.