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UPSHUR, ABEL PARKER, an American statesman and jurist; born in Northampton, Va.,
June 17, 1790. He studied law and was admitted to the Richmond bar in 1824. He
was a member of the Virginia state legislature from Northampton County 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
President Tyler's cabinet from 1841 to 1843 and was Secretary of State from 1843
to 1844. He wrote an important work, The States-rights Theory of the
Constitution (1840), and also published a number of political papers. He was
accidentally killed by the explosion of a gun on board the United States
man-of-war Princeton, on the Potomac River, near Washington, D. C., Feb. 28, 1844. 

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The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Copyright 1905.

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