Sigmund Livingston
Sigmund G. Livingston (December 27, 1872 – June 13, 1946) was a German-born American Jewish attorney working in Chicago, Illinois.Livingston was the founder and first president of the Anti-Defamation League, and the author of the book Must Men Hate (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1944).Livingston was born in Gießen, Germany, the son of Dora and Mayer Löwenstein,[2] and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1881, settling in Bloomington, Illinois.He moved to Chicago and in 1929 became a partner in Lederer, Livingston, Kahn and Adler (now known as Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, LLP).[9] After many years as an attorney and as head of the ADL, Livingston retired, and he died on June 13, 1946, in Highland Park, Illinois, at the age of 73.