Livingston Biddle Jr. Dies; Led Arts Agency From: The Washington Post | Date: May 5, 2002| Author: Richard Pearson | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Livingston Biddle Jr., 83, member of a noted Philadelphia family who became a writer, congressional staffer and professor and whose career culminated in the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1977 to 1981, died May 3 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had a heart ailment.

Mr. Biddle came to Washington in 1963, spending the next two years on the staff of Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) and drafting legislation that would establish the government arts organization. In 196...

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