UPSHUR, ABEL P.
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(1790-1844), was a member of the Virginia Legislature from 1824 to 1826, a Judge of the General Court of Virginia from 1826 to 1841, and a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1829. He was Secretary of the Navy in Tyler's Cabinet from 1841 to 1843, and Secretary of State from 1843 to1844, when he was killed on board the "Princeton." He wrote an important exposition of the State-rights theory of the Constitution.
By John Franklin Jameson
