Born in
Seattle, Washington to Louisa Zenaide (née Lavoy) and Julian Guy Rivers, Rivers attended grammar school in
Flat, Alaska, and
Franklin High School in Seattle. He worked as a
gold miner in Flat from 1921 to 1923, and then earned an
LL.B. from the
University of Washington School of Law in 1929. He then worked as a lawyer in private practice for several years. . To his left are
Fred Seaton,
Ernest Gruening,
Bob Bartlett,
Mike Stepovich and
Waino Hendrickson. Rivers was a lifelong civil servant, working in a number of public positions throughout his life. He served as
United States Attorney for District of Alaska, from 1933 to 1944. He was then elected as the
attorney general of Alaska, serving from 1945 to 1949. He was the chair of the
Employment Security Commission of Alaska from 1950 to 1952, and then became the
mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska from 1952 to 1954. In 1954 he was also president of the League of Alaskan Cities. He was a member of the
Alaska Territorial Senate in 1955, and was the second vice president of the
Alaska Constitutional Convention at
College, Alaska in 1955 and 1956. He was a delegate to the
Democratic National Conventions in 1960, 1964, and 1968. Rivers appeared on the game show
To Tell the Truth as contestant #1 in the second group of contestants on June 2, 1959. Rivers died at his home in
Chehalis, Washington on the morning of August 13, 1976. ==U.S. House of Representatives==