William Cabell Banks

William Cabell Rives is a lawyer, Diplomate and American Politician born the May 4th 1793 and dead the April 25th 1868. Originating in the county of Albemarle (Virginia), it represented the Virginia with the Chambre of the representatives and the Sénat of the United States and was also Minister of the United States in France between 1829 and 1832 and between 1849 and 1853.

Biography

William Cabell Rives was born with Union Hill , property of her grandfather, colonel William Cabell, in the county of Amherst. The property was along the river James ( James River ) in what is today the county of Nelson. He was the son of Robert Cabell Rives (1764 - 1845) and of his wife Margaret (v. 1770 - 1815). After educatebeing educated by a tutor, it went to the Hampden-Sydney College then to the College off William and Mary to Williamsburg until in 1809.

It left Williamsburg to study the right with Thomas Jefferson to Monticello and was allowed with the bar of Richmond in 1814. He followed initially his occupation in the county of Nelson but, after having married, in 1819, Judith Page Walker (1802 - 1882), he settled in the property which she had inherited, Castle Hill close to Cobham in the Comté of Albemarle, with approximately 12 miles in the east of Charlottesville. It is there that it was to reside until the end of its life.

It began its political career by taking part in the constitutional convention of the State of Virginia in 1816. It was then called with the Room of the representatives of Virginia in 1817 - 1819, where it represented the county of Nelson, and again in 1822 like representative of the county of Albermarle. Later in 1822, it was elected with the Chambre of the representatives of the United States where it sat of 1823 with 1829.

Of 1829 with 1832, it was minister the United States with Paris (France). During the Glorious Three, it contributed to rejoin Fayette with the candidature of the duke of Orleans.

On its return of France, he was elected with the Sénat of the United States where he carried out three mandates, the last like member of the party whig . Of 1849 with 1853, it became again Minister of the United States in France.

In February 1861, it was delegated to the conference of peace with Washington. There was opposed to the secession but remained faithful to Virginia when it decided to make secession, and was one of its representatives to the Congress of the States confederated of America in 1861 - 1862, during the American Civil War.

Banks died in Castle Hill in 1868 and was buried in the burial of family. He is the author of several books, of which most important is the life and the time of James Madison ( Life and Times off James Madison , 3 flights., Boston, 1859 - 1868). He off sat at the Board Visitors of the Université of Virginia of 1834 with 1849, and chaired during many years the historical Company of Virginia ( Virginia Historical Society ).

His/her son, Alfred Landon Rives (born in Paris the March 25th 1830 and died with Albemarle the February 27th 1903) was a distinguished engineer, whose girl Amelie Louise Rives (born in Richmond the July 23rd 1863 and died in 1945) illustrated herself as novelist, his most known book being The Quick gold the Dead? (1888). She married John Armstrong ( archie ) Chanler the June 14th 1888, and, after their divorce, remaria the February 18th 1896 with prince Pierre Troubetzkoy.

External bonds

Biography of William Cabell Banks on the biographical Directory of the members of the Congress of the United States

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