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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Royal Descent
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:38:20 -1000

Both George Herbert Walker Bush [1924- ] 41st President of the United
States and Congressman Robert L. Livingston [R. LA] [1943- ]
reportedly soon to be the Speaker of the House, are allegedly
descended from Robert II, [1316-1390] King of Scotland [1371-1390].

The Gateway Ancestor of Royal Descent is Robert Livingston, The Elder
[1654-1725] [N.B. Some sources say 1728.] who was Speaker of the New
York Colonial Assembly from 1718. He was born at Ancrum, County
Roxburgh, North Britain, on 13 Dec 1654 and emigrated to the New World
in 1673. He settled first at Charlestown, Massachusetts and moved to
Albany, New York in 1674.

Robert R. Livingston [1746-1813], [great-grandson of Robert
Livingston, The Elder], another ancestor of Congressman Robert L.
Livingston, was Chancellor of New York [1777-1801] and administered
the oath of office as 1st President of the United States to George
Washington [1732-1799] on 30 Apr 1789, in New York City. Chancellor
Livingston, who was a Federalist, had also been a member of the
committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
During the 1790's he began to move away from the Federalists and ally
himself with the Anti-Federalists, who became the
Democratic-Republicans under Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]. Jefferson
appointed Livingston as Minister to France [1801-1805], where
Livingston had a great diplomatic victory for the fledgling United
States in securing the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon I [1769-1821]
in 1803.

Both George Bush and Bob Livingston are also descendants of Robert I,
'The Bruce' [1274-1329] King of Scotland, of "Braveheart" fame, and
his wife and consort, Isobel of Mar. Robert 'The Bruce' was, of
course, the great Scottish Liberator and Epic Hero of History and
Legend. He roundly defeated the English, under the inept and
indecisive Edward II, at Bannockburn, 24 Jun 1314. He became the
first King of Scotland, or 'King of the Scots' to force the English to
abandon all claims to overlordship, by the Treaty of Northampton in
1328. Robert 'The Bruce' has also been a great inspiration to the
retiring Speaker of the House, Newton Gingrich, because of the justly
famous story of the "persistent spider."

D. Spencer Hines

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Ravitch, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside in
The Wall Street Journal, 5 Nov 1998, p. A23.

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