Leonidas Felix Livingston (
April 3,
1832 -
February 11,
1912) was a
U.S.
Representative from
Georgia
.
Born near
Covington,
Georgia
, Livingston attended the common schools.He
engaged in agricultural pursuits.He entered the
Confederate States Army as a private
in August 1861 and served throughout the
Civil War.
He resumed agricultural pursuits in
Newton County,
Georgia
.He served as member of the State house of
representatives in 1876, 1877, and 1879-1881.He served in the State
senate in 1882 and 1883.He served as vice president of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society for eleven years and president four
years.He served as president of the Georgia State Alliance for
three years.
Livingston was elected as a
Democrat to the
Fifty-second and to the nine
succeeding Congresses (
March 4,
1891-
March 3,
1911).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1910.He again engaged in agricultural pursuits in Newton
County.
He
died in Washington,
D.C.
, February 11, 1912.He was interred in Bethany Church Cemetery,
near Covington,
Georgia
.
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