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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 de junho de 1790 – 28 de fevereiro de 1844) foi um advogado e político norte-americano do estado da Virgínia. [1] Upshur sempre foi ativo nas políticas estaduais e mais tarde serviu como Secretário da Marinha e Secretário de Estado dos Estados Unidos durante a presidência de John Tyler . [ 1 ]
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 de jan. de 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 ...
In the State Department, Upshur proved a vigilant and assertive administrator of proslavery statecraft. Keeping a close eye on threats to slavery in Cuba and Brazil, Upshur’s central focus was the fourth largest slave society in the hemisphere, the independent Republic of Texas.
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.
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.
