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Nationality. American. Political party. Democratic, Whig. Parent. alongside William F. Gordon. alongside Thomas McCleland, John P. Cobbs and Joseph Shelton. William Cabell Rives (May 4, 1793 – April 25, 1868) was an American lawyer, planter, politician and diplomat from Virginia.
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 ...
The Rives Family: Descendants of Margaret J. Cabell and Robert Rives. The fruitful union of Margaret J. Cabell and Robert Rives produced several leading statesmen, including William C. Rives, a Virginia Whig and, for a time, the most prominent political figure in the Commonwealth.
WILLIAM CABELL RIVES AND THE BRITISH ABOLITIONISTS edited by MARY ELIZABETH THOMAS* WILLIAM CABELL RIVES (1793-1868), a Virginian with considerable in-herited property in slaves, had been appointed United States Minister to France in 1849, and served there until 1853.' Reportedly a great abolition-
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. 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 ...
