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Rives was born at "Union Hill", the estate of his grandfather, Colonel William Cabell, in Amherst County, Virginia.
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Diplomat lawyer politician representative senator
Rives was born at "Union Hill", the estate of his grandfather, Colonel William Cabell, in Amherst County, Virginia.
After private tutoring, Rives attended Hampden-Sydney College, followed by the College of William and Mary.
He represented Virginia as a Jackson Democrat in both the United States. House and Senate and also served as the United States. minister to France. lieutenant was located on the James River in what is now Nelson County. He was a great-uncle of Alexander Brown, author of books on the early history of Virginia and a family history, The Cabells and their Kin (1895).
He left Williamsburg to study law with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, and in 1814 was admitted to the bar at Richmond.
Rives began his law practice in Nelson County, but after marrying Judith Page Walker (1802–1882) in 1819, he moved to her estate Castle Hill, near Cobham in Albemarle County. This was his home for the remainder of his life.
Rives" political career began by serving in the state constitutional convention of 1816. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1817-1819 for Nelson County, and again in 1822 for Albemarle County.
In 1823 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served from 1823 to 1829.
In 1829 he was appointed by Andrew Jackson as minister to France serving for 3 years. His name was presented as a candidate for the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1835, but the nomination went to Richard M. Johnson, in spite of having been presidential nominee Martin Van Buren"s preferred candidate. On his return from France, Rives was elected to the United States Senate.
From 1849 to 1853, he was again minister to France.
In 1860, he endorsed the call for a Constitutional Union Party Convention, where he received most of Virginia"s first ballot votes for President. Rives was a delegate to the February 1861 Peace Conference in Washington which sought to prevent the American Civil War.
He spoke out against secession, but was loyal to Virginia when she did secede. He served in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862, and the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.
Rives wrote several books, the most important being his Life and Times of James Madison (3 vols, Boston, 1859-1868).
He served on the Board of Visitors for the University of Virginia from 1834 to 1849, and was for many years the president of the Virginia Historical Society. He died at "Castle Hill" in 1868 and was buried in the family cemetery. lieutenant was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Jacksonian Democracy, Democratic Party, Whig Party.
He would serve three terms, the last as a member of the Whig Party.
Minister, Senator