William Cabell Rives

William Cabell Rives (born May 4, 1793 in Union Hill , Virginia , † April 25, 1868 on Castle Hill near Charlottesville , Virginia) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party , Democratic Party , Whig Party ) and Ambassadors . He represented the state of Virginia in the US Senate .

William C. Rives

Professional career

Rives attended Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden Sidney and later studied law at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and a doctorate in 1809. He was admitted in 1814 and started in Charlottesville as a lawyer to work. In 1816 he participated in the revision of the constitution of the state of Virginia. In 1821 he moved to Castle Hill , a private plantation in Albemarle County near Charlottesville.

Political career

His political career began with the election to the Virginia House of Representatives , where he was represented from 1817 to 1820 and from 1822 to 1823. On March 4, 1823 he was elected to the House of Representatives in the 18th Congress and represented his state there until his resignation in 1829. His resignation came because he was appointed Ambassador of the United States to France , whose function he was from 1829 to Exercised in 1832. After his return from France he moved on December 10, 1832 for the resigned Littleton Waller Tazewell in the Senate and politicized there as a member of the Democratic Republican Party until February 22, 1834. He resigned voluntarily, but was on March 4 Re-elected to the Senate in 1836 after John Tyler resigned. He filled this gap by March 3, 1839. Rives chaired the Senate Naval Affairs Committee during the 24th and 25th Congresses . On January 18, 1841, he was confirmed as a member of the Whig Party in his office as Senator and continued this from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1845 from. During that tenure he was Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 27th Congress . From 1849 to 1853 he was again used as ambassador to France.

William Cabell Rives was a member of the Peace Conference of 1861 in Washington, DC , which unsuccessfully tried to prevent the impending civil war . The state of Virginia designated Rives as one of its representatives for the Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery and Richmond , which took place from 1861 to 1862. He was elected to the House of Representatives of the 2nd Congress of the Confederate States of America .

Rives died on April 25, 1868 on his Castle Hill plantation and was buried on private family property.

Web links

• William Cabell Rives in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)