Robert L. Tillotson

Robert Livingston Tillotson (1786 - July 22, 1878 Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was the son of Thomas Tillotson and Margaret Livingston Tillotson.

He was Secretary of State of New York from 1816 to 1817.

He was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1819 to 1828. During his tenure, the Norwegian sloop Restoration was seized by the port authorities upon its arrival at New York, and he filed the papers in the US District Court. The owners, Norwegian immigrants, got the ship released by a pardon signed by President John Quincy Adams.

Sources

The New York Times, Died, [death notice] July 25, 1878. (PDF)

Political offices
Preceded by Peter Buell Porter	Secretary of State of New York 1816 - 1817	Succeeded by Charles D. Cooper
Legal offices
Preceded by Jonathan Fisk	U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York 1819 - 1828	Succeeded by John Duer

Secretaries of State of New York

J Scott L Scott Hale T Tillotson Jenkins T Tillotson Jenkins Hale Jenkins Rensselaer Porter R Tillotson Cooper Yates Flagg Dix Spencer Campbell* Young Benton Morgan Randall Leavenworth Headley Tucker Floyd-Jones Ballard Depew Barlow Nelson Scribner Willers Bigelow Beach Carr Cook Rice Palmer McDonough O'Brien Whalen Koenig Lazansky May Hugo Lyons Hamilton Knapp Moses Flynn Walsh Curran DeSapio Simon Lomenzo Ghezzi Cuomo Paterson Shaffer Treadwell Daniels Milano* Jacobs Cortés-Vázquez Colón* Perales

* denotes Acting

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