Henry Walter Livingston (1768-1810), of the Upper Manor branch of the Livingston family, graduated from Yale in 1786 and practiced law in New York City. He spent the early 1790s in Paris as private secretary to Gouverneur Morris, then the U.S. minister to France. Livingston served in the New York Assembly before being elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress, narrowly defeating the incumbent John P. Van Ness. He served two terms in the House of Representatives (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ; John L. Brooke, Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson [Chapel Hill, 2010], 72, 316, 403, 478; Vol. 37:460-1n, 517).