Rives, George D. (George Douglas), 1915-2014
Dates
- Existence: 1915 - 2014
Biography
George Douglas Rives was born in Kentucky in 1915. He graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1935 and earned a law degree from Yale in 1938. He then practiced law in Washington, D.C., at Turney, Rives, and Turney, specializing in transportation law. In 1943, he left the firm to enlist in the U.S. Navy, and he served in the Naval Air Transport Service during World War II. While stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii, he met Claire Thomas, and they married in 1945; they later had two children and adopted one child. After his discharge in 1945, he practiced law at the Brobeck Firm in San Francisco, California. In 1962, the family relocated to Portland, Oregon, for Rives to join the firm that would later become Stoel Rives. At the firm, Pacific Power and Light was his primary client. He retired in 1984. During his retirement, he did pro bono legal work for the Oregon Legal Services Corporation for about a decade. He died in 2014.
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Oral history interview with George D. Rives
Oral history interview with George D. Rives conducted by William R. Long from October 7 to November 5, 2005, as part of the United States District Court Oral History Project. Rives was an attorney in Portland, Oregon.