Leonidas Felix Livingston (April 3, 1832 – February 11, 1912) was an American Confederate States Army veteran who served ten terms as a U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1891 to 1911.
Early life and political involvement
Born near Covington, Georgia, Livingston attended the common schools, and engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Civil War
He entered the Confederate States Army as a private in August 1861 and served throughout the American Civil War.
Early career
He resumed agricultural pursuits in Newton County, Georgia, serving as member of the Georgia House of Representatives in 1876, 1877, and 1879 to 1881, and in the Georgia State Senate in 1882 and 1883. He served as vice president of the Georgia State Agricultural Society for eleven years and president four years, and as president of the Georgia State Alliance for three years.
U.S. Congress
Livingston was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1911).[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910.
Later years and death
He again engaged in agricultural pursuits in Newton County. He died in Washington, D.C., on February 11, 1912, and was interred in Bethany Church Cemetery near Covington.
References
- ^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. p. 16. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
External links
- United States Congress. "Leonidas F. Livingston (id: L000368)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
