Background
William H. Cabell was born on December 16, 1772 at "Boston Hill" near Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia, United States; the son of Col. Nicholas and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell and brother of Joseph Carrington Cabell.
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William H. Cabell was born on December 16, 1772 at "Boston Hill" near Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia, United States; the son of Col. Nicholas and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell and brother of Joseph Carrington Cabell.
Young Cabell studied with private tutors and later attended and graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in 1789 and then the College of William and Mary, from which he graduated in July 1793. Young Cabell then moved to Richmond to read law and after completing those studies was admitted to the bar on June 13, 1794.
In the fall of 1793 he moved to Richmond, and was licensed to practise law in the following year.
His political career began in 1796, when he was elected to the legislature from Amherst County. He was reelected four times, and was also presidential elector in 1800 and in 1804. He voted for Madison's famous Virginia Resolutions of 1798. In December 1805 the legislature elected him governor of the state. After reelecting him twice--the maximum number of times under the constitution of Virginia--the legislature appointed him judge of the general court, a position which he held until appointed by Gov. Monroe member of the court of appeals in April 1811. He was also placed on the governor's council that year. Under the new constitution of 1830, he was reappointed to the court of appeals, and was made president of that body in 1842, in which position he continued until he retired in 1851. From 1809 to 1830 he was one of the trustees of Hampden Sidney College. He was a member of the board of commissioners appointed by the Virginia Assembly in 1818 to select a site for the University of Virginia and to give a plan for its organization.
William H. Cabell died on January 12, 1853 in Richmond, Virginia and was interred in Shockoe Hill Cemetery.
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He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
He was vigorous in mind and in body, respected and trusted as a public officer, and loved for his genial spirit.
On April 9, 1795, he married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Col. William Cabell of "Union Hill. " He lived for several years in her home, and since there were two other William Cabells there he added the initial "H" to his name. On November 5, 1801, Elizabeth Cabell, his wife, died, and four years later (March 11, 1805) he maried Agnes S. B. Gamble, daughter of Col. Robert Gamble of Richmond.