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William Cabell Rives (May 4, 1793 – April 25, 1868) was an American lawyer, planter, politician and diplomat from Virginia. Initially a Jackson Democrat as well as member of the First Families of Virginia , Rives served in the Virginia House of Delegates representing first Nelson County , then Albemarle County, Virginia , before ...
William Cabell Rives (1793-1868) The political genius of the Cabell family concentrated in the fourth generation of Cabells in America on William Cabell Rives, the great-grandson of patriarch William Cabell.
Defying the president and Democratic Party leaders in an 1838 Senate speech, William Cabell Rives declared, “I can never forget that I have a country to serve as well as a party to obey.” His career of public service began under the tutelage of his neighbors, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and extended beyond the Civil War he struggled ...
An émigré from Warminster, England, William Cabell was a surveyor, magistrate, farmer, trader, vestryman, churchwarden, and pioneer in colonial Virginia. He applied his numerous talents to the consolidation of British settlement in the interior and founded a dynasty of gifted individuals who would continue to offer their services to the ...
"William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve," is the story of a gentleman who was a student and protégé of both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who carefully prepared him in both sense and sensibilities for a lifelong career as a lawyer and United States' public servant -- to have included elected office to the Virginia House of Delegates from...
William Cabell (American Revolution) William Cabell (March 13, 1730 – March 23, 1798) was an American planter, soldier, and politician who served more than four decades in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly representing the area of his and family members' plantations on the upper James River .
Department History. People. William Cabell Rives (1792–1868) State of Residence: Virginia. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (France) Appointed: April 18, 1829. Presentation of Credentials: October 25, 1829. Termination of Mission: Left post on September 27, 1832.
