Livingston was married in 1965 to the former Bonnie Robichaux (also born 1943), a native of Raceland in Lafourche Parish. De Grasse's daughter, Sylvie, married Henry Walter Livingston, ancestors of the Congressman. Livingston is a direct descendant of Henry Livingston, who was probably the (then anonymous) author of the poem, The Night Before Christmas, and French Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse, who together with General George Washington cornered and defeated British General Cornwallis in the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia, thereby concluding the American Revolutionary War. Livingston, a co-author of the Declaration and author of the Louisiana Purchase his younger brother, Edward, Aide de Camp and later Secretary of State to President Andrew Jackson, and who had earlier in his career held the same Congressional seat (La-1) as Bob Livingston. He is a descendant of the Livingston family of New York, whose members include Philip, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Livingston's memoir, The Windmill Chaser: Triumphs and Less in American Politics, was published in September 2018. He is currently a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist. During his final years in Congress, Livingston was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton's impeachment. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999 and as the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999. House of Representatives, a position he declined following revelations of an extramarital affair. A Republican, he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the U.S.

Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. (born April 30, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S.

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