Samuel Livermore

Samuel Livermore

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name =Samuel Livermore


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order =6th & 13th
office =President pro tempore of the United States Senate
term_start =May 6, 1796
term_end =December 4, 1796
December 2, 1799December 29, 1799
president =George Washington
John Adams
predecessor =Henry Tazewell
James Ross
successor =William Bingham
Uriah Tracy
order2 =United States Senator
from New Hampshire
term_start2 =March 4, 1793
term_end2 =June 12, 1801
predecessor2 =Paine Wingate
successor2 =Simeon Olcott
birth_date =May 14, 1732
birth_place =Waltham, Massachusetts
death_date =May 18, 1803
death_place =Holderness, New Hampshire
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party =Pro-Administration
Federalist
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alma_mater =College of New Jersey
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profession =Law
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::"This article is about the New Hampshire lawyer and politician; for the New Orleans lawyer and legal scholar, see Samuel Livermore (legal writer)."Samuel Livermore (May 14, 1732–May 18, 1803) was a U.S. politician. He was a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1793 to 1801 and served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1796 and again in 1799.

Livermore was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and attended Waltham schools. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1752, He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1756, and commenced practice in Waltham. He moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1758 and later to Londonderry. He was a member of the New Hampshire General Court (the state's general assembly) 1768-1769. He was judge-advocate in the Admiralty court and Attorney General from 1769 to 1774. He moved to Holderness in 1775 and was State attorney for three years.

Livermore was a Member of the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1782 and again from 1785 to 1786. He was Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature from 1782 to 1789, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1788. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the First and Second Congresses, serving from March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1793. He was chairman of the House Committee on Elections in the Second Congress.

Livermore was president of the State constitutional convention in 1791 and in 1792 was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and was reelected in 1798 and served from March 4, 1793, until his resignation effective June 12, 1801, due to ill health. He served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Fourth and Sixth Congresses.

Livermore died in Holderness, New Hampshire and is interred in Trinity Churchyard there.

Livermore was the father of Arthur Livermore, a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, and Edward St. Loe Livermore, a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

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