# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-livingston-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:05:59.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-livingston-jr"
name: "Henry Livingston, Jr."
slug: "henry-livingston-jr"
description: "Henry Livingston Jr. was an American poet, and has been proposed as being the uncredited author of the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more popularly known as The Night Before Christmas. Credit for the poem was taken in 1837 by Clement Clarke Moore, a Bible scholar in New York City, nine years after Livingston's death. It was not until a further twenty years had passed that the Livingston family knew of Moore's claim, and it was not until 1900 that they went public with their own claim. Since then, the question has been repeatedly raised and argued by experts on both sides."
tagline: "American farmer, revolutionary officer, justice of the peace, and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Livingston_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1748-10-13"
deathDate: "1828-02-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.276458666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Livingston_Jr."
    title: "Henry Livingston Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "هنري ليفينغستون جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "هنرى ليفينجستون جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B3%D9%B9%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "ہنری لیونگسٹن جونیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Livingston_Jr."
    title: "Henry Livingston Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Livingston_Junior"
    title: "Henry Livingston Junior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12316516"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump