George L. Rives

George Lockhart Rives (1849–1917) served as United States Assistant Secretary of State 1887 to 1889. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02E7DD103AE433A2575AC1A96E9C946696D6CF "George L. Rives, Noted Lawyer, Dies; Once Assistant Secretary of State Succumbs at His Summer Home in Newport; Chairman Columbia Board; Ex-Corporation Counsel of New York Was President of Commission Which Revised City's Charter,"] "New York Times." August 19, 1917.] He also wrote the two volume book "The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848: A History of the Relations between the Two Countries from the Independence of Mexico to the Close of the War with the United States" which he published in 1913.

From 1903 to 1917 he was chairman of the trustees of his alma mater, Columbia University. His portrait was painted in 1915 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947) and hangs in the University; another version by the artist belonged to the sitter's family.

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* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02E7DD103AE433A2575AC1A96E9C946696D6CF "George L. Rives, Noted Lawyer, Dies; Once Assistant Secretary of State Succumbs at His Summer Home in Newport; Chairman Columbia Board; Ex-Corporation Counsel of New York Was President of Commission Which Revised City's Charter,"] "New York Times." August 19, 1917.

External links

* [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v018/n1/review_29.html Review on The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848]