UPSHUR, ABEL PARKER

ŭpˈshər, 1790–1844, American cabinet officer, b. Northampton co., Va. Admitted (1810) to the bar, he practiced law in Richmond, Va., and held state offices. When most of the Whig cabinet resigned in disagreement with President Tyler, Upshur was appointed (1841) Secretary of the Navy. Upon Daniel Webster's resignation, he became Secretary of State (1843–44). An ardent advocate of slavery, Upshur reopened negotiations with Texas for its admission to the Union as a slave state and thus played an important role in the movement for the annexation of Texas. He was killed by the explosion of a cannon on the U.S.S. Princeton.

See biography by C. H. Hall (1964).

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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
Book by J. Gerald Kennedy; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Literature And Society--United States--History--19th Century, Poe, Edgar Allan--1809-1849--Criticism And Interpretation
...Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall, The, 13 Upshur, Abel Parker, 155 Valley of Nis, The, 29 Van Buren, Martin...William Wilson, 7 , 16 , 21 , 42 , 174 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 15 , 55 , 162n , 163n Wilmer, Lambert, 25 , 30 Wilmot...
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The Price of Union
Book by Herbert Agar; Houghton Mifflin, 1950
Subjects: Political Parties--United States, United States--History, United States--Politics And Government
...56 University of Virginia, Jefferson founds, 154 Upham. Charles, 230 Upper Canada, rebellion in, 299 - 300 Upshur, Abel Parker, 301 n. Utah, organized as territory, 361 Vallandigham, Clement L., 431 - 432 Valley Forge, 30 Van Buren...
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The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia
Book by James Jackson Kilpatrick; H. Regnery Co., 1957
Subjects: Nullification, State Rights
...sovereignty, 14 ; resists Supreme Court in Indian claims, 170 Turnbull, Robert J.: in nullification controversy, 181 Upshur, Abel Parker, 195 ; 305 - 307 Van Devanter, Justice Willis: protests Federal control of labor relations, 249 Vermont: hostilities...
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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 13
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1911
Subjects: History, Modern
...630 Laurentius Petri Gothus, n 630 sq. Upsala-mote , The 1593 , Swedish religious settlement at, II 632 sq. Upshur, Abel Parker, American Secretary of State, VII 391 sqq. Uraga, American expedition at, XI 824, 828 sq. Urals, iron industries...
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Horatio Greenough: The First American Sculptor
Book by Nathalia Wright; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963
Subjects: Greenough, Horatio--1805-1852
...Magazine and Demo cratic Review, The , 143 , 226 , 239 University Square, New York, 271 Upjohn, Richard, 276 Upshur, Abel Parker, 141 Vail, Aaron, 137 , 138 , 162 , 221 , 222 ; HG to NA, State Dept., Accession 161 , Item 135 , 137 Valentine...
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Slavery and American Sea Power: The Navalist Impulse in the Antebellum South
Journal article by Matthew J. Karp; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Political aspects, Military reform--History, Military reform--Political aspects, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--History, Slavery--Political aspects, United States. Navy--History, United States. Navy--Powers and duties, Upshur, Abel P.--Military policy, Upshur, Abel P.--Reports
...Upshur, see Claude H. Hall, Abel Parker Upshur: Conservative Virginian, 1790...Upshurs report, see Hall, Abel Parker Upshur, 120-30; Claude H. Hall...third quotations); Hall, Abel Parker Upshur, 177 (fourth quotation...
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Reconsidering Suffrage Reform in the 1829-1830 Virginia Constitutional Convention
Journal article by Christopher M. Curtis; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Constitutional conventions--Evaluation, Election law--Interpretation and construction, Suffrage--Laws, regulations and rules, Virginia--History, Virginia--Political aspects, Virginia--Social aspects, Voting rights--Laws, regulations and rules
...free blacks, and slaves. Judge Abel Parker Upshur, a leading conservative delegate...question of representation, Abel Parker Upshur emphasized the centrality...quotations); Claude H. Hall, Abel Parker Upshur: Conservative Virginian...
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Decline and Revival, 1838-1860
Journal article by Melvin I. Urofsky; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 114, 2006
Subjects: American history, Associations, Historic documents, Historical Society-Virginia, Leadership, States
...could report a balance of almost fifty dollars, and the organization invited Judge Abel Parker Upshur to deliver the annual address the following year. Upshur never gave his talk, because for all practical purposes the VHS ceased functioning...
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Virginia's Diplomats
Journal article by Muriel B. Rogers; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2005
Subjects: American history, Diplomatic & consular services, Exhibits, Historic artifacts, Public officials, Virginia
...Virginians have filled that post-Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Randolph, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Abel Parker Upshur, Edward Stettinius, George C. Marshall, Lawrence Eagleburger, and Colin Powell. Some diplomats made their marks...
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The Look Within: Property, Capacity, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century America
Journal article by Jacob Katz Cogan; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, 1997
Subjects: Capacity and disability--History, Constitutional history--Social aspects, Property--History, Suffrage--History
...30, at 71 (Richmond, Samuel Shepherd Co. 1830) hereinafter Virginia Convention of 1829-18301 (statement of Abel Parker Upshur). (36.) Id. (37.) U.S. Const. art. I, sections 2. amended by U.S. Conts. amend. XIV, sections...
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Upshur, Abel Parker
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UPSHUR, ABEL PARKER up sh r, 1790 1844, American cabinet...in disagreement with President Tyler , Upshur was appointed (1841) secretary of the...44). An ardent advocate of slavery, Upshur reopened negotiations with Texas for...


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