A 1824 landmark U. S. Supreme Court ruling overturned a New York State-granted monopoly (" a veritable model of state munificence " facilitated by one of the Founding Fathers, Robert R. Livingston ) for the then-revolutionary technology of steamboats.

Kidd and an acquaintance, Colonel Robert Livingston, orchestrated the whole plan and paid for the rest.

* 1904 – Robert Livingston, American actor ( d. 1988 )

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

* 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

President Jefferson sent Monroe to France to assist Robert R. Livingston to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston traveled to Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans in 1802.

On April 18, 1802, Jefferson penned a letter to Robert Livingston.

On Saturday, April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris.

Jefferson had sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris in 1802 to try to buy the city of New Orleans and adjacent coastal areas.

Robert Livingston, as Chancellor of the State of New York ( the state's highest ranking judicial office ), administered the oath of office to George Washington at his first inauguration ; there was no Chief Justice of the United States, nor any other federal judge prior to their appointments by President Washington in the months following his inauguration.

On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.

** Robert Livingston, American actor ( b. 1904 )

* November 27 – Robert Livingston, American member of the New York colonial assembly ( 1737-1758 ) ( b. 1708 )

* February 26 – Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1746 )

* November 27 – Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1813 )

In July 1776, the New York convention appointed a committee, including John Jay, Robert Livingston, George Clinton and Robert Yates, to " devise and carry into execution " measures for " obstructing the channel of Hudson's river, or annoying the navigation of the said River.

:— Robert R. Livingston named first United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs

It is named after Robert R. Livingston, delegate to the 1775 Continental Congress, member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and father-in-law of Richard Montgomery, after whom Montgomery County ( and similarly named counties in many other states ) were named.

However, the chief negotiator, Robert R. Livingston believed that the 3rd article of the treaty providing for the Louisiana Purchase would be acceptable to congress.

* Robert Livingston Beeckman ( 1866 – 1935 ), American politician and Governor of Rhode Island

The county is named for Robert R. Livingston.

James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston traveled to Paris to negotiate the purchase in 1802.

The manor was originally part of the Livingston Manor ; Clermont was a section in the southwest corner that was bequeathed to Robert Livingston, a younger son.

* Robert Livingston Schuyler ( 1951 )

Congressmen Schuyler Colfax, John Sherman, Carl Schurz, Henry Lane, and Robert Schenck took the Radical Republican positions articulated by Senator Charles Sumner and House leader Thaddeus Stevens ; they did not speak of social equality.

Honorary trustees include: Jack Badal, Robert Ballard, Kevin Brownlow, Gary K. Clarke, Clive Cussler, Dick Douglas, Nancy Durbin, Jack Hanna, Joyce Harrell, Dick Houston, Eleanor & Pascal Imperato, Schuyler Jones, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, Kenneth Love, Margaret Moore, Mike Resnick, Kay & George Schaller, Igor Sikorsky, Jr., Stan Walsh and Holly Wofford.

Helen Adam – John Ashbery – Paul Blackburn – Robin Blaser – Ebbe Borregaard – Bruce Boyd – Ray Bremser – Brother Antoninus – James Broughton – Paul Carroll – Gregory Corso – Robert Creeley – Edward Dorn – Kirby Doyle – Robert Duerden – Robert Duncan – Larry Eigner – Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Edward Field – Allen Ginsberg – Madeline Gleason – Barbara Guest – LeRoi Jones – Jack Kerouac – Kenneth Koch – Philip Lamantia – Denise Levertov – Ron Loewinsohn – Edward Marshall – Michael McClure – David Meltzer – Frank O ' Hara – Charles Olson – Joel Oppenheimer – Peter Orlovsky – Stuart Perkoff – James Schuyler – Gary Snyder – Gilbert Sorrentino – Jack Spicer – Lew Welch – Philip Whalen – John Wieners – Jonathan Williams

Under the leadership of Peter Schuyler and Robert Livingston the Albany Convention was formed which remained loyal to William and Mary.

" P. Schuyler Miller also reviewed the novel favorably, ranking it with Robert A. Heinlein's juveniles.

* Robert Dash: November 11-December 5, 1970, introduction by Schuyler ( New York: Graham Gallery, 1970 ).

The Curt Berger, John Keith, Michael Mann, Mickey Murphy, and Schuyler Meyer Jr. vessels built from 2002 to 2003 by Robert E. Derecktor Connecticut Shipyards, LLC are capable of carrying up to 74 passengers at 24 knots.

Robert Hillyer, the poet, writes in his introduction to this brief animal fable that Mr. Burman ought to win a Nobel Prize for the Catfish Bend series.

Joachim had given Brahms a letter of introduction to Robert Schumann, and after a walking tour in the Rhineland, Brahms took the train to Düsseldorf, and was welcomed into the Schumann family on arrival there.

Robert Silverberg had written an introduction to Warm Worlds and Otherwise, arguing on the basis of selections from stories in the collection, that Tiptree could not possibly be a woman.

In 1921, Lord Robert Cecil proposed the introduction of Esperanto into state schools of member nations, and a report was commissioned.

* The earliest such reference occurs in 1589 when Thomas Nashe in his introduction to Robert Greene's Menaphon implies the existence of an early Hamlet: " English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good sentences, as Blood is a begger, and so forth ; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches.

* C. Robert Mesle's Process Theology: A Basic Introduction ( St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8272-2945-3 ) is an introduction to process theology written for the layperson.

A pair of SF novels by Gene DeWeese and Robert " Buck " Coulson, Now You See It / Him / Them and Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats are set at Worldcons ; the latter includes an in-character " introduction " by Wilson Tucker ( himself a character in the novel ) which is a sly self-parody verging on a self-tuckerization.

Robert Shea provided a four-paragraph introduction to the rulebook for the Illuminati Expansion Set 1 ( 1983 ), in which he wrote, " Maybe the Illuminati are behind this game.

In 1901 Robert Ridgway wrote in the introduction to The Birds of North and Middle America that:

It is translated by Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons with introduction and annotations by Robert Irwin.

Lister was able to quickly reduce infection rates, a reduction that was further helped by his subsequent introduction of the techniques of Robert Koch ( such as the Steam Steriliser, which proved more successful than the carbolic acid spray that Lister had been using previously ) to sterilize equipment, have rigorous hand washing and a later implementation of rubber gloves.

In their introduction to The Reader's Companion to Military History Robert Cowley and Geoffrey Parker summarise this side of the modern view of the Battle of Tours by saying " The study of military history has undergone drastic changes in recent years.

The next big occurrence in fishing rods was the introduction of the fiberglass rod in the 1940s and were developed by Robert Gayle and a Mr. Mcguire.

This was referenced by Richard Waller in his introduction to The Posthumous Works of Robert Hooke, M. D.

A bonus audio introduction and commentary is provided by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer.

Edited by Lovecraft scholar Robert M. Price, the book includes an introduction by Price tracing the roots and development of the God of a Thousand Forms.

In an introduction to a new edition of Chambers Dictionary in August 2008 Paxman labelled the work of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns as " sentimental doggerel.

* Robert Sokolowski, " Introduction to Phenomenology ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000 )-An excellent non-historical introduction to phenomenology.

* Benton, Janetta Rebold and Robert DiYanni. Arts and Culture: An introduction to the Humanities, Volume 1 ( Prentice Hall.

Despite these problems, however, the novella's length provides unique advantages ; in the introduction to a novella anthology titled Sailing to Byzantium, Robert Silverberg writes:

He was already writing stories for the Australian Magazine, when in 1867 he joined the staff of the Melbourne Argus through the introduction of Dr. Robert Lewins.

* Woman in the Dark ( Knopf, 1988 ; hardcover edition that collects the three parts of the title novelette ; introduction by Robert B. Parker ).

* Galeazzo Ciano, Diary 1937 – 1943, Preface by Renzo De Felice ( Professor of History University of Rome ) and original introduction by Sumner Welles ( U. S. Under Secretary of State 1937 – 1943 ), translated by Robert L. Miller ( Enigma Books, 2002 ), ISBN 1-929631-02-2

Managing Urban America ( first published in 1979 ) is a book that provides an academic overview and introduction to local urban planning and management in the United States, written by David R. Morgan and Robert E. England.

According to Robert Osborne of the television network Turner Classic Movies in the introduction to the film's airing on its weekly segment " The Essentials ," Tracy, weighted down by his growing alcoholism, refused to give MGM an answer.