| LC control no. | n 86025853 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868 |
| Variant(s) | Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868 Rives, W. C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Virginia |
| Birth date | 1793-05-04 |
| Death date | 1868-04-25 |
| Place of birth | Amherst County (Va.) |
| Place of death | Castle Hill (Va. : Estate) |
| Field of activity | Politics, Practical |
| Affiliation | Confederate States of America. Congress College of William & Mary Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate United States. Congress. Senate Whig Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators Lawyers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from LC Mss. Div. for Trist, N.P. Papers, 1795-1873 (William C. Rives) LC data base, 5-11-87 (Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868) manual auth. cd. (usage: William C. Rives) DAB, 1935 (Rives, William Cabell, 1793-1868, political leader in Va.; minister to France, 1829 and 1849-53; s. Robert and Margaret Jordan (Cabell) Rives; grad. William and Mary, 1809; studied law and politics under Thomas Jefferson; m. Judith Page Walker, 1819; elec. U.S. Senate, 1832 and 1841; mem. Congress of the Confederacy; d. at the estate Castle Hill) Mr. Rives's resignation, 1834: page 1 (W.C. Rives) Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present, viewed online December 22, 2017 (Rives, William Cabell; a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at 'Union Hill,' Amherst County, Va., May 4, 1793; died on his plantation, 'Castle Hill,' near Charlottesville, Va., April 25, 1868) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed April 30, 2024 (Rives, William Cabell, a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at 'Union Hill,' Amherst County, Va., May 4, 1793; attended Hampden-Sidney College in Virginia and graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1809; studied law; admitted to the bar about 1814 and commenced practice in Charlottesville, Albemarle County; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1816; member, State House of Delegates 1817-1820, 1822-1823; moved to 'Castle Hill,' Albemarle County, in 1821; elected to the Eighteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his resignation in 1829; Minister to France 1829-1832; elected as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Littleton W. Tazewell and served from December 10, 1832, to February 22, 1834, when he resigned; again elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Tyler and served from March 4, 1836, to March 3, 1839; subsequently reelected as a Whig on January 18, 1841, for the term beginning March 4, 1839, and served until March 3, 1845; again Minister to France 1849-1853; member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress in Montgomery, Ala., and Richmond, Va., in 1861; member of the House of Representatives from Virginia in the Second Confederate Congress; died on his plantation, 'Castle Hill,' near Charlottesville, Va., April 25, 1868; interment in the private burial ground on the family estate.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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