. History of the state of New York, political and governmental;. Edward Livingston Edward Livingston; born Livingston Manor, N. Y., May 26,1764; lawyer; member of congress, 1795-1801 and 1823-29;United States district attorney, 1801-3; mayor of New YorkCity, 1801-3; removed to Louisiana, 1804; served in the battleof New Orleans under General Jackson; member Louisianastate legislature, 1820; elected to congress and to the UnitedStates senate, 1829-31; resigned May 24, 1831 to becomesecretary of state; minister plenipotentiary to France, 1833-35;died in , Dutchess county, N. Y., May 23
. History of the state of New York, political and governmental;. Edward Livingston Edward Livingston; born Livingston Manor, N. Y., May 26,1764; lawyer; member of congress, 1795-1801 and 1823-29;United States district attorney, 1801-3; mayor of New YorkCity, 1801-3; removed to Louisiana, 1804; served in the battleof New Orleans under General Jackson; member Louisianastate legislature, 1820; elected to congress and to the UnitedStates senate, 1829-31; resigned May 24, 1831 to becomesecretary of state; minister plenipotentiary to France, 1833-35;died in , Dutchess county, N. Y., May 23. John Lansing, Jr. John Lansing, Jr., chancellor; born in Albany, N. Y.,January 30, 1754; lawyer; secretary to Gen. Philip Schuyler,1776-77; delegate to continental congress, 1784-85; delegateto state convention to ratify federal constitution, 1788; memberof assembly, 1780-89; justice supreme court of New York,1790-98; chief justice, 1798-1801; chancellor, 1801-14; unan-imously nominated by Anti-Federalists for governor of NewYork in 1804 but declined; mysteriously disappeared afterleaving his hotel to post a letter at one of the docks of NewYork City, December 12, 1829. 1801] THE SPOILS SYSTEM 225 and obsequious pettifogger, a vain and contemptiblelittle pest. McKisson, the friend of Spencer, was anexecrable compound of every species of Spencer himself was a man as notoriouslyinfamous as the legitimate offspring of treachery andfraud can possibly be. Samuel Osgood, formerlyUnited States Postmaster-General, was a born hypo-crite, who propagated falsehood for the purpose of
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