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WILLIAM CABELL RIVES (1793-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 387 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM CABELL See also:RIVES (1793-1868)  , See also:American See also:political See also:leader and diplomat, was See also:born in See also:Nelson See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 4th of May 1793 . He attended See also:Hampden-See also:Sidney and See also:William and See also:Mary colleges, was admitted to the See also:bar, and practised in Nelson county (till 1821) and afterwards in See also:Albemarle county . In politics a Democrat, he served in the See also:state constitutional See also:convention in 1816, in the Virginia See also:House of Delegates in 1817-19 and in 1822, and in the Federal House of Representatives in 1823-29 . From 1829 to 1832 he was See also:minister to See also:France; in 1833 he entered the See also:United States See also:Senate, but in the following See also:year resigned . From 1836 to 1845. he again served in the Senate, and in 1849-53 he was again minister to France . In See also:February 1861 he was a delegate to the See also:Peace See also:Conference in See also:Washington; he opposed See also:secession, but was loyal to his state when it seceded, and was one of its representatives in the Confederate See also:Congress during the See also:Civil See also:War . He died at the See also:country See also:estate of See also:Castle See also:Hill, Albemarle county, Virginia, on the 25th of See also:April 1868 . See also:Rives was the author of several books, the most important being his See also:Life and Times of See also:James See also:Madison (3 vols., See also:Boston, 1859-68), the completion of which was prevented by his See also:death . He was the See also:father of See also:Alfred See also:Landon Rives (1830-1903), an engineer of some prominence, whose daughter, Amelie Rives (1863- ), became well known as a novelist, her best known See also:book being The See also:Quick or the Dead ? (1888); she married See also:John A . Chanler in 1888, and after their See also:divorce married in 1896 See also:Prince See also:Pierre Troubetzkoy of See also:Russia .

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