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

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