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William Cabell Rives (May 4, 1793 – April 25, 1868) was an American lawyer, planter, politician and diplomat from Virginia.
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.”.
William Cabell (March 13, 1730 – March 23, 1798) was an American planter, soldier, and politician who served more than four decades in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly representing the area of his and family members' plantations on the upper James River.
William Cabell Rives (1792–1868) State of Residence: Virginia. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (France) Appointed: April 18, 1829. Presentation of Credentials: October 25, 1829. Termination of Mission: Left post on September 27, 1832.
The papers of William Cabell Rives (1793-1868) span the years 1674-1939, with the greater part dated between 1830 and 1890. The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, writings, financial records, printed matter, and miscellaneous material and is organized into eleven series: Diaries ; Journals ; Letterbooks ; Bound Correspondence ; Family
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.'
William Cabell Rives was the son of Robert and Margaret Jordan (Cabell) Rives. He was educated at Hampden-Sydney College and at the College of William and Mary where he graduated in 1809. He studied law and politics under Thomas Jefferson. Rives served in the War of 1812 and in the Virginia House of Delegates.
