RIVES, WILLIAM C
\ɹˈa͡ɪvz], \ɹˈaɪvz], \ɹ_ˈaɪ_v_z]\
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(1793-1868), represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress as a Democrat from 1823 to 1829. While Minister to France from 1829 to 1832 he negotiated the Indemnity Treaty of 1831. He was a U.S. Senator from 1833 to 1834 and from 1836 to 1845, Minister to France from 1849 to 1853, and a Confederate Congressman from 1861 to 1864. He wrote an elaborate life of Madison.
By John Franklin Jameson
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