Liberty Billings (1823–1877)[1] was an American officer in the Union Army, a Unitarian minister, and a state senator.

[2] He was educated at Thornton Academy[3] and later graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1848.

[4] Billings served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry which in turn became the 33rd United States Colored Infantry during the American Civil War.

[5] Billings has been honored posthumously as a Great Floridian.

[6] He was deemed ineligible to participate in the constitutional convention and was voted out along with others accused of being residents of other states.