Arthur Livermore

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American judge

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Field	Value
name	Arthur Livermore
image	Livermorea.jpg
state	New Hampshire
district	At-Large
term_start	March 4, 1817
term_end	March 3, 1821
preceded	Daniel Webster
succeeded	Thomas Whipple, Jr.
term_start2	March 4, 1823
term_end2	March 3, 1825
preceded2	Nathaniel Upham
succeeded2	Titus Brown
office3	Member of the New Hampshire Senate
term_start3	1821
term_end3	1822
office4	Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
term_start4	1794
term_end4	1795
birth_date
birth_place	Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire, British America
death_date
death_place	Campton, New Hampshire, U.S.
resting_place	Trinity Churchyard, Holderness, New Hampshire
citizenship	U.S.
spouse	Louisa Bliss Livermore
children	Edward Livermore
Samuel Livermore
Horace Livermore
relations	Samuel Livermore
Edward St. Loe Livermore
profession	Lawyer
Politician
Judge
party	Democratic-Republican
Adams-Clay Republican
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Early life and education

Born in Londonderry in the Province of New Hampshire, Livermore received classical instruction from his parents and also studied law. Later, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Concord in 1792 and then moved to Chester the following year.

Career

Livermore was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1794 and 1795 and the solicitor for Rockingham County 1796–1798. After moving to Holderness in 1798, he became an associate justice of the superior court from 1798 to 1809 and chief justice from 1809 to 1813. He served as a presidential elector on the Federalist ticket in 1800 and as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1813 to 1816.

Elected as a Democratic-Republican as United States Representative for New Hampshire to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, Livermore served from March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821. He served as chairman of both the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses) and the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Sixteenth Congress). In 1818 he introduced a proposal to eliminate slavery by Constitutional amendment.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1822 to the Seventeenth Congress. He served in the New Hampshire Senate in 1821 and 1822, judge of probate for Grafton County in 1822 and 1823.

Livermore was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican representing New Hampshire to the Eighteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1824. After leaving Congress, he was the chief justice of the court of common pleas from 1825 to 1832, moved to Campton, New Hampshire in 1827, and was a trustee of Holmes Plymouth Academy from 1808 to 1826.

Personal life

Livermore was the son of Samuel Livermore, and the brother of Edward St. Loe Livermore, both of whom served in the United States Congress. He married Louisa Bliss, daughter of Major Joseph Bliss.

Shortly before his 87th birthday, Livermore died in the town of Campton, New Hampshire, on July 1, 1853. He is interred at Trinity Churchyard, Holderness, New Hampshire.

Livermore was allegedly involved in an altercation with eccentric businessman Timothy Dexter, whom claimed Livermore beat him after borrowing $200 and refusing to pay it back.

References

Livermore, Arthur. (1772). "The New Hampshire Register and Farmer's Almanac". New Hampshire.
Vile, Robert. (2015). "Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments". ABC-CLIO.
Livermore, Arthur. (1918). "Congressional serial set". United States. Government Printing Office.
"The Project Gutenberg eBook of a Pickle for the Knowing Ones, by Lord Timothy Dexter".

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