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Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, planter, judge, and politician from the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Abel Parker Upshur (* 17. Juni 1790 in Northampton County, Virginia; † 28. Februar 1844 auf dem Dampfer USS Princeton auf dem Potomac River, Maryland) war ein US-amerikanischer Jurist, Politiker ( Whig Party) und Außenminister. Upshur studierte Jura an der Universität Yale und an der Universität Princeton. Nach seiner Zulassung 1810 ging ...
Upshur served as Secretary of State from July 1843 to February 1844, when he died in a naval accident. He pursued the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Treaty with Britain.
9. Jan. 2023 · Abel Parker Upshur was born on 17 June 1791, the son of a planter family in Northampton County, Virginia. He attended Yale College and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) for one year before returning to Virginia to study law. Upshur gained admission to the Virginia bar in 1810 and practiced in Richmond. He served in the State House of Delegates from 1812 to 1813 and again ...
Abel Upshur. By Matthew Karp. Abel Upshur’s political career began and ended with Princeton: in 1807, he was booted from the college for leading a student rebellion; in 1844, he was killed in an explosion aboard the U.S.S. Princeton. In the years between, Upshur was one the most influential pro-slavery statesmen in the antebellum United States.
Abel P. Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1840; new. ed., Philadelphia, 1863). See also Southern Quarterly Review , 3 (April 1843), 407-31. Upshur's.
Abel P. Upshur was a Virginia lawyer and politician who served as secretary of the Navy and secretary of state under President John Tyler. He died in 1844 when a cannon exploded on the U.S.S. Princeton during a naval review.
