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Upshur</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg/220px-Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg/330px-Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg/440px-Abel_P._Upshur_SecNavy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="605" data-file-height="737" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">15th <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">United States Secretary of State</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />July 24, 1843 – February 28, 1844<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Ad interim: June 24, 1843 – July 24, 1843</span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_C._Calhoun" title="John C. Calhoun">John C. Calhoun</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">13th <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">United States Secretary of the Navy</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />October 11, 1841 – July 23, 1843</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Edmund_Badger" title="George Edmund Badger">George Badger</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Henshaw_(American_politician)" title="David Henshaw (American politician)">David Henshaw</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="Virginia House of Delegates">Virginia House of Delegates</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/Northampton_County,_Virginia" title="Northampton County, Virginia">Northampton County, Virginia</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />November 29, 1824 – 1826<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with William Dunton and John Stratton</div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Smith Nottingham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">William Dunton</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />November 30, 1812 – May 16, 1813<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with George T. Kendall</div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">William Dunton</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">John C. Parramore</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Abel Parker Upshur</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1790-06-17</span>)</span>June 17, 1790<br /><a href="/wiki/Northampton_County,_Virginia" title="Northampton County, Virginia">Northampton County, Virginia</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">February 28, 1844<span style="display:none">(1844-02-28)</span> (aged 53)<br /><a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Oak_Hill_Cemetery_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)">Oak Hill Cemetery</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Elizabeth Dennis (Deceased 1817)<br />Elizabeth Brown</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">College of New Jersey</a> (renamed Princeton)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Abel Parker Upshur</b> (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, planter, judge, and politician from the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Shore_of_Virginia" title="Eastern Shore of Virginia">Eastern Shore of Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Active in Virginia state politics for decades, with a brother and a nephew who became distinguished U.S. Navy officers, Judge Upshur left the Virginia bench to become the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">Secretary of the Navy</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">Secretary of State</a> during the administration of President <a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a>, a fellow Virginian. He negotiated the treaty that led to the 1845 <a href="/wiki/Texas_annexation" title="Texas annexation">Texas annexation</a> to the United States and helped ensure that it was admitted as a <a href="/wiki/Slave_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave state">slave state</a>. Upshur died on February 28, 1844, when a gun on the warship <a href="/wiki/USS_Princeton_(1843)" title="USS Princeton (1843)">USS <i>Princeton</i></a> exploded during a demonstration.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upshur was born in <a href="/wiki/Northampton_County,_Virginia" title="Northampton County, Virginia">Northampton County</a> on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in 1790, one of 12 children borne to the former Anne Parker and her husband <a href="/w/index.php?title=Littleton_Upshur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Littleton Upshur (page does not exist)">Littleton Upshur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wroten_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wroten-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was named after his paternal grandfather, who died on March 25, 1790. His maternal grandfather was George Parker. Littleton Upshur was reportedly a "staunch individualist and rabid <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalist</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-wroten_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wroten-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> owned the plantation <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse_(Bridgetown,_Virginia)" title="Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia)">Vaucluse</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-miller_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was elected several times to both Houses of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_General_Assembly" title="Virginia General Assembly">Virginia General Assembly</a> (beginning with his election to the House of Delegates in 1807),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wroten_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wroten-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and served as a captain in the U.S. Army during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, which began in part after raids on Eastern Shore plantations.<sup id="cite_ref-wroten_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wroten-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His brother <a href="/wiki/George_P._Upshur" title="George P. Upshur">George P. Upshur</a> (1799–1852)<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> became a distinguished naval officer; another brother was John Brown Upshur (1776–1822). His niece Mary Jane Stith Sturges (1828–1891) married New Yorker Josiah R. Sturges after the Civil War, helped organize the Harlem Free Hospital and published a historical novel, <i>Confederate Notes</i>, in 1867, either anonymously or under the pseudonym "Fanny Fielding". </p><p>After receiving a basic education through private tutors suitable for his class, Upshur attended <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yale_College" title="Yale College">Yale College</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-miller_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nhc_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was expelled from the former for participating in a student rebellion.<sup id="cite_ref-wroten_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wroten-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-miller_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated from neither institution, instead returning to <a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>, to study law with <a href="/wiki/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wirt (Attorney General)">William Wirt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wroten_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wroten-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_family">Marriage and family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upshur first married Elizabeth Dennis in <a href="/wiki/Accomack_County,_Virginia" title="Accomack County, Virginia">Accomack County, Virginia</a> on February 26, 1817; she died in childbirth on November 28, 1817. He remarried, this time to his second cousin,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elizabeth Ann Brown (née Upshur); they had one daughter, Susan Parker Brown Upshur (1826–1858).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Virginia_planter,_lawyer_and_politician"><span id="Virginia_planter.2C_lawyer_and_politician"></span>Virginia planter, lawyer and politician</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Virginia planter, lawyer and politician"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Admitted to the Virginia bar in 1810; Upshur briefly set up practice in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, Maryland,<sup id="cite_ref-nhc_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but returned to Virginia after his father's death.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He operated <a href="/wiki/Vaucluse_(Bridgetown,_Virginia)" title="Vaucluse (Bridgetown, Virginia)">Vauclose plantation</a> using enslaved labor, as had his father, and developed a law practice as well as became active in state politics.<sup id="cite_ref-nhc_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the reconstructed 1790 census, the senior Abel Upshur was tithed for 13 blacks, one black between 12 and 16 years old, 15 horses and 4 chariots.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1820 federal census, Littleton Upshur owned 43 slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1830 federal census, Judge Abel Upshur owned 17 slaves and employed 3 free colored people, and Col. Littleton Upshur owned 20 slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1840 federal census, Abel Upshur owned 21 slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upshur was first elected to the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_House_of_Delegates" title="Virginia House of Delegates">Virginia House of Delegates</a> in 1812, while his father represented both Northampton and neighboring <a href="/wiki/Accomac_County,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Accomac County, Virginia">Accomac County</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Senate" title="Virginia Senate">Virginia Senate</a> (both part-time positions).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> ended, Upshur remained in the state capital, serving as <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth%27s_Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth's Attorney">Commonwealth's Attorney</a> for Richmond (1816–1823). He ran unsuccessfully for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">U.S. Congress</a>. Northampton County voters returned him as one of their legislative delegates in 1825, and re-elected him in 1826, but he did not fill the second term, since fellow delegates elected him as a judge of the Virginia General Court in 1826.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nhc_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhc-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout his political career, Upshur was a slaveholder, as well as stalwart conservative and advocate for <a href="/wiki/States%27_rights" title="States' rights">states' rights</a>. Upshur again won election in 1829, this time as one of the four delegates representing Mathews, Middlesex, Accomac, Northampton and Gloucester Counties in the Virginia State <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Constitutional_Convention_of_1829%E2%80%931830" title="Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830">Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830</a>, where he served alongside Thomas R. Joynes, Thomas M. Bayley and William K. Perrin (replacing the deceased Calvin Read).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the convention, Upshur represented eastern slaveholders and became the man who spoke the most against democratic reforms. He expressed similar views during the <a href="/wiki/Nullification_Crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nullification Crisis">nullification movement</a> in <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> in 1832; he defended the principle of nullification and the state in a series of letters entitled "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Exposition_of_the_Virginia_Resolutions_of_1798" class="extiw" title="s:An Exposition of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798">An Exposition of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798</a>". In 1839, Upshur also set forth his white supremacist views in an essay published by Richmond's <i>Southern Literary Messenger</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Although Upshur opposed universal white manhood suffrage at that constitutional convention, such would happen at the next constitutional convention, in 1850, after Upshur's death.) </p><p>Although a Federalist in his youth, Upshur became a states rights man in 1816, even a Jacksonian Democrat. However, after President <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> (a slave owner himself) refused to countenance South Carolina's nullification, he changed parties again and became a <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upshur's view of the Constitution received its fullest expression in his 1840 treatise in response to Judge <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Story" title="Joseph Story">Joseph Story</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Brief_Enquiry_into_the_Nature_and_Character_of_our_Federal_Government" class="extiw" title="s:A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government">A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States</a></i>. </p><p>The reorganized state legislature again elected Upshur judge of the Northampton Circuit Court, and he continued in that position until 1841, when he became Secretary of the Navy, as described below.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretary_of_the_Navy">Secretary of the Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Secretary of the Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <a href="/wiki/John_Tyler" title="John Tyler">John Tyler</a> became <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> in 1841, he appointed longtime friend Upshur as the 13th <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy" title="United States Secretary of the Navy">United States Secretary of the Navy</a> in October of that year. His time with the Navy was marked by a strong emphasis on reform and reorganization, and efforts to expand and modernize the service. He served from October 11, 1841, to July 23, 1843. Among his achievements were the replacement of the old <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Navy_Commissioners" title="Board of Navy Commissioners">Board of Navy Commissioners</a> with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_bureau_system" title="United States Navy bureau system">bureau system</a>, regularization of the <a href="/wiki/Naval_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval officer">officer corps</a>, increased Navy appropriations, construction of new sailing and steam warships, and the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Naval_Observatory" title="United States Naval Observatory">United States Naval Observatory</a> and Hydrographic Office. Abel P. Upshur was also a staunch advocate for the expansion of the size of the U.S. Navy. Upshur sought the United States Navy to be at least half the size of the British Royal Navy.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upshur's zeal for a vastly expanded and empowered Federal navy struck some as being at odds with his fastidious advocacy of states’ rights and limited central government. The abolitionist and naval expansionist Congressman John Quincy Adams noted in his diary: “This new-born passion of the South for the increase of the navy is one of the most curious phenomena in our national history. From Jefferson’s dry-docks and gunboats, to admirals, three-deckers, and war-steamers equal to half the navy of Great Britain, is more than a stride—there is a flying-fish’s leap.”<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But for Southern navalists like Upshur, there was no contradiction. Both stances were necessary for the defense of the South's especially vulnerable “social institutions” from abolitionism—domestic, in the case of states’ rights; British, in the case of geopolitics.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secretary_of_State">Secretary of State</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Secretary of State"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 1843, President Tyler appointed Upshur <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State">United States Secretary of State</a> to succeed <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Webster" title="Daniel Webster">Daniel Webster</a>, who had resigned. His chief accomplishment was advocating for the annexation of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Texas" title="Republic of Texas">Republic of Texas</a> as a slave state. Upshur and Texas ambassador <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Van_Zandt" title="Isaac Van Zandt">Isaac Van Zandt</a> worked closely on the treaty of annexation until Upshur's death. He was also deeply involved in the negotiations in the <a href="/wiki/Oregon_boundary_dispute" title="Oregon boundary dispute">Oregon boundary dispute</a> and was a strong advocate of bringing the <a href="/wiki/Oregon_Country" title="Oregon Country">Oregon Country</a> into the union. He was eventually willing to settle on the <a href="/wiki/49th_parallel_north" title="49th parallel north">49th parallel</a> compromise for the northern border between the United States and Canada, although negotiations were not finished until after his death and the end of Tyler's term as president.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="USS_Princeton_explosion_and_death">USS <i>Princeton</i> explosion and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: USS Princeton explosion and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/USS_Princeton_disaster_of_1844" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Princeton disaster of 1844">USS Princeton disaster of 1844</a></div> <p>On February 28, 1844, Upshur joined President Tyler and about 400 other dignitaries examining the new <a href="/wiki/Steamship" title="Steamship">steamship</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Princeton_(1843)" title="USS Princeton (1843)">USS <i>Princeton</i></a>, which sailed down the <a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac River</a> from <a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia">Alexandria, Virginia</a>. He and Gilmer, his successor as Secretary of the Navy, and four other passengers died when one of the ship's guns exploded near <a href="/wiki/Fort_Washington,_Maryland" title="Fort Washington, Maryland">Fort Washington, Maryland</a>, during a demonstration of its firing power, and many other officers and passengers were wounded.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upshur was buried at the <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Cemetery" title="Congressional Cemetery">Congressional Cemetery</a> in Washington, DC. In 1874, later his remains were reinterred at <a href="/wiki/Oak_Hill_Cemetery_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyer</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Abel_P._Upshur" title="USS Abel P. Upshur">USS <i>Abel P. Upshur</i></a> was commissioned in 1920, and was later a <a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease" title="Lend-Lease">Lend-Lease</a> ship for <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a>.</li> <li>In World War II, the United States <a href="/wiki/Liberty_ship" title="Liberty ship">liberty ship</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Abel_Parker_Upshur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Abel Parker Upshur (page does not exist)">SS <i>Abel Parker Upshur</i></a> was named in his honor.</li></ul> <p>These places have been named for him: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Upshur_County,_West_Virginia" title="Upshur County, West Virginia">Upshur County, West Virginia</a></li> <li>Upshur Street in northwest <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, DC</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-ghostsofdc_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghostsofdc-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arlington, Virginia">Arlington, Virginia</a>; Maryland; and northwest <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upshur_County,_Texas" title="Upshur County, Texas">Upshur County, Texas</a> (interestingly, the county seat - <a href="/wiki/Gilmer,_Texas" title="Gilmer, Texas">Gilmer</a> - is named for <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_Gilmer" title="Thomas Walker Gilmer">Thomas Walker Gilmer</a>, another victim of the <i>USS Princeton</i> explosion)</li> <li>Mount Upshur, known as Boundary Peak 17, a summit on the Alaska-British Columbia border near <a href="/wiki/Hyder,_Alaska" title="Hyder, Alaska">Hyder, Alaska</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abel_P._Upshur&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography" title="Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography">Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography</a> vol. 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Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Acheson" title="Dean Acheson">Acheson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles" title="John Foster Dulles">Dulles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Herter" title="Christian Herter">Herter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Rusk" title="Dean Rusk">Rusk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_P._Rogers" title="William P. 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State">trips</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Pompeo" title="Mike Pompeo">Pompeo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_Mike_Pompeo_as_United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="List of international trips made by Mike Pompeo as United States Secretary of State">trips</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antony_Blinken" title="Antony Blinken">Blinken</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_Antony_Blinken_as_United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="List of international trips made by Antony Blinken as United States Secretary of State">trips</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_international_trips_made_by_secretaries_of_state_of_the_United_States" title="List of international trips made by secretaries of state of the United States">List of international trips made by secretaries of state of the United States</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States" title="Cabinet of the United States">Cabinet-level</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Stoddert" title="Benjamin Stoddert">Stoddert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Smith_(Cabinet_member)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Smith (Cabinet member)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Hamilton_(politician)" title="Paul Hamilton (politician)">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Jones_(statesman)" title="William Jones (statesman)">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Williams_Crowninshield" title="Benjamin Williams Crowninshield">Crowninshield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_Thompson" title="Smith Thompson">S Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_L._Southard" title="Samuel L. Southard">Southard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Branch" title="John Branch">Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levi_Woodbury" title="Levi Woodbury">L. Woodbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahlon_Dickerson" title="Mahlon Dickerson">Dickerson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Kirke_Paulding" title="James Kirke Paulding">Paulding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Edmund_Badger" title="George Edmund Badger">Badger</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Upshur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Henshaw_(American_politician)" title="David Henshaw (American politician)">Henshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walker_Gilmer" title="Thomas Walker Gilmer">Gilmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Y._Mason" title="John Y. Mason">Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Bancroft" title="George Bancroft">Bancroft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Y._Mason" title="John Y. Mason">Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ballard_Preston" class="mw-redirect" title="William Ballard Preston">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alexander_Graham" title="William Alexander Graham">Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_P._Kennedy" title="John P. Kennedy">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_C._Dobbin" title="James C. Dobbin">Dobbin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Toucey" title="Isaac Toucey">Toucey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gideon_Welles" title="Gideon Welles">Welles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolph_E._Borie" title="Adolph E. Borie">Borie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_M._Robeson" title="George M. Robeson">Robeson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_W._Thompson" title="Richard W. Thompson">R Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Goff_Jr." title="Nathan Goff Jr.">Goff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Hunt" title="William H. Hunt">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Chandler" title="William E. Chandler">Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Collins_Whitney" title="William Collins Whitney">Whitney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_F._Tracy" title="Benjamin F. Tracy">Tracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilary_A._Herbert" title="Hilary A. Herbert">Herbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Davis_Long" title="John Davis Long">Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Moody" title="William Henry Moody">Moody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Morton_(politician)" title="Paul Morton (politician)">Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Charles Joseph Bonaparte">Bonaparte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_H._Metcalf" title="Victor H. Metcalf">Metcalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_H._Newberry" title="Truman H. Newberry">Newberry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_von_Lengerke_Meyer" title="George von Lengerke Meyer">Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josephus_Daniels" title="Josephus Daniels">Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Denby_(politician)" title="Edwin Denby (politician)">Denby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_D._Wilbur" title="Curtis D. Wilbur">Wilbur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Francis_Adams_III" title="Charles Francis Adams III">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_A._Swanson" title="Claude A. Swanson">Swanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Edison" title="Charles Edison">Edison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Knox" title="Frank Knox">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Forrestal" title="James Forrestal">Forrestal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Dept. of Defense</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_L._Sullivan_(United_States_Navy)" title="John L. Sullivan (United States Navy)">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_P._Matthews" title="Francis P. Matthews">Matthews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_A._Kimball" title="Dan A. Kimball">Kimball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Anderson_(Texas_politician)" title="Robert B. Anderson (Texas politician)">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Thomas_(Secretary_of_the_Navy)" title="Charles Thomas (Secretary of the Navy)">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Gates_Jr." title="Thomas S. Gates Jr.">T. Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Franke" title="William B. Franke">Franke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Connally" title="John Connally">Connally</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Korth" title="Fred Korth">Korth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Nitze" title="Paul Nitze">Nitze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ignatius" title="Paul Ignatius">Ignatius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chafee" title="John Chafee">Chafee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Warner" title="John Warner">Warner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._William_Middendorf" title="J. William Middendorf">Middendorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Graham_Claytor_Jr." title="W. Graham Claytor Jr.">Claytor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hidalgo" title="Edward Hidalgo">Hidalgo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lehman" title="John Lehman">Lehman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Webb" title="Jim Webb">Webb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Ball" title="William L. Ball">Ball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Garrett_III" title="Henry L. Garrett III">Garrett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_O%27Keefe" title="Sean O'Keefe">O'Keefe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Howard_Dalton" title="John Howard Dalton">Dalton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Danzig" title="Richard Danzig">Danzig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_R._England" title="Gordon R. England">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_C._Winter" title="Donald C. Winter">Winter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Mabus" title="Ray Mabus">Mabus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_V._Spencer" title="Richard V. 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Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_L._Sullivan_(United_States_Navy)" title="John L. Sullivan (United States Navy)">Sullivan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._John_Kenney" title="W. John Kenney">Kenney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_A._Kimball" title="Dan A. Kimball">Kimball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_P._Whitehair" title="Francis P. Whitehair">Whitehair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Thomas_(Secretary_of_the_Navy)" title="Charles Thomas (Secretary of the Navy)">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Gates_Jr." title="Thomas S. Gates Jr.">T. Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Franke" title="William B. Franke">Franke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_A._Bantz" title="Fred A. Bantz">Bantz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_B._Fay" title="Paul B. Fay">Fay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_E._BeLieu" title="Kenneth E. BeLieu">BeLieu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._B._Baldwin" title="Robert H. B. Baldwin">Baldwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Baird" title="Charles F. Baird">Baird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Warner" title="John Warner">Warner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_P._Sanders" title="Frank P. Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._William_Middendorf" title="J. William Middendorf">Middendorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_S._Potter" title="David S. Potter">Potter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_R._Macdonald" title="David R. Macdonald">Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._James_Woolsey_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="R. James Woolsey Jr.">Woolsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Murray" title="Robert J. Murray">Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_F._Goodrich" title="James F. Goodrich">Goodrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Garrett_III" title="Henry L. Garrett III">Garrett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Daniel_Howard" title="J. 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