Background
John Cook Rives was probably the son of George Rives of Franklin County, Virginia. At eleven years of age he went to Kentucky to live with his uncle, Samuel Casey.
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John Cook Rives
Edit ProfileEducation
There he received a good frontier education before he went to Edwardsville, Illinois, to work as a clerk in a branch of the Bank of the United States.
Career
About 1824 he became cashier in a bank in Shawneetown. Meantime he read law and was admitted to the bar, but he never practised. For three years he worked in the office of the United States' Telegraph, where he won the esteem of Duff Green who recommended him to Jackson in 1829 as a devoted Democrat entitled to his confidence and friendship. He was soon appointed to a clerkship in the fourth auditor's office and served there until on April 11, 1832, he became an employee of Francis Preston Blair of the Washington Daily Globe.
In 1833 he became a partner of Blair and the financial manager of the Globe. With the exception of a farm that he created out of lands known as "the Bladensburg races, " everything he touched made profits. Upon the dissolution of the Blair-Rives partnership in the Globe in 1849 Rives received over $100, 000 for his share. He maintained an expensive country estate with several slaves for the benefit of his children, whom he wanted to rear on a farm. He had the respect and confidence of the Democratic presidents from Jackson to Buchanan.
Blair loved Rives so much that he entrusted his investments to him, and he is said to have asked for a dissolution of the firm of Blair and Rives to avoid any embarrassment to Rives, when Blair followed Van Buren into the Free-Soil party. Rives was one of the most philanthropic citizens of Washington, D. C. , during his successful business career.
In one year he gave over $17, 000 to widows and orphans. As an editor he wrote in a facetious, forceful, and graphic style. He filled the editorial columns of the Globe, when Blair felt indisposed to write. Blair attacked the powerful political enemies in a vitriolic fashion, while Rives in his short editorials damned the recalcitrant small fry of his party with faint praise. He often produced fake defenses purposely to ruin the disloyal Democratic politicians. His great contribution was the Congressional Globe. His was the idea of reporting the congressional debates impartially.
For thirty years from December 2, 1833, to April 10, 1864, he published them, and his son Franklin continued the work until the beginning of the Congressional Record in 1873 by act of Congress.
In 1842 he became a partner of Peter Force in publishing the documentary sources of the American Revolution.
By will the Globe was left to two of the sons, Franklin and Jefferson, over $50, 000 in bonds were divided among his other five children, and his farm was left to his family with the specification that it should revert to the government if his descendants refused to live on it.
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The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress (Classic Reprint)
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The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress; Also, of the Special Session of the Senate (Classic Reprint)
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The Congressional Globe, Part 2
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The Congressional Globe
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Politics
He remained steadfastly an orthodox Democrat and spent his money freely for the party during presidential campaigns.
He was a loyal Union man, opposed to slavery in principle, but he denied the right of the national government to force the abolition of slavery. He agreed with Clay on internal improvements and foreign affairs.
Personality
His big rugged body and deep voice were remembered by those who once met him. He was six feet five inches high and weighed normally two hundred and forty pounds.
Connections
At the age of thirty-eight he married Mary, one of his bindery girls. She died in 1859, the mother of seven children.
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