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Robert R. Livingston was born in 1746 and died in 1813. He served as Recorder of New York from 1773 to 1775, as a member of the Continental Congress in 1775 to 1777, 1779 to 1781, and 1784 to 1785, and on the Committee of Five which drafted the Declaration of Independence. He was also a member of the Provincial Congress from 1775 to 1777, Chancellor of New York from 1777 to 1801, Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1781 to 1783, and Minister to France from 1801 to 1804. He negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, administered the oath to George Washington as first President of the United States in 1789, and shared with Robert Fulton the invention of the steamboat and its navigation. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of New York State from 1784 to 1801.
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