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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. Active...
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    USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard until transferred to the...
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    The county is named for Abel P. Upshur, who was U.S. Secretary of State during President John Tyler's administration. Upshur County is part of the Longview...
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  • West Virginia Surname: Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), American lawyer, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State Franklin Upshur (1875–1965), American...
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    appointed Abel P. Upshur, a popular Secretary of the Navy and close adviser, as his new Secretary of State, and nominated Gilmer to fill Upshur's former...
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    one gun exploded, killing six people including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, and injuring others...
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    death of Abel P. Upshur, one of six people killed when a cannon exploded during a public demonstration in the USS Princeton disaster. Upshur's loss was...
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    Newport News Shipbuilding". Inside Business. Retrieved April 8, 2021. "Abel P. Upshur (Destroyer No. 193)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval...
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    Retrieved November 13, 2021. "Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Abel Parker Upshur (1791–1844)". Office of the Historian. Archived from the original...
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    Priscilla and Emily Franklin. His wife died in 1903. He was related to Abel P. Upshur, United States Secretary of State under President John Tyler. His son...
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    anti-annexation Secretary of State Daniel Webster, and on June 23, 1843 appointed Abel P. Upshur, a Virginia states' rights champion and ardent proponent of Texas annexation...
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    1841 Fitzgerald, requested the consent of the Secretary of the Navy, Abel P. Upshur, to entered his "servant" (slave), Robert Lucas, as a landsman (in reality...
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    of Legaré, Tyler appointed Secretary of the Navy Abel Upshur as his new Secretary of State. Upshur and his adviser, Duff Green, believed that Britain...
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    CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) George, 2005. p.5. George, 2005. p. 465. Turpin and McEwen, 1980. George, 2005. p. 262. Otmar Schäuffelen (2005). Chapman Great...
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     459–461. Remini 1997, p. 605. Remini 1997, p. 640. Remini 1997, pp. 466–467. Remini 1997, pp. 452–453. Lodge 1883, p. 118. Remini 1997, p. 466. Howe 2007,...
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    in the Texas republic. Accordingly, he directed Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur of Virginia to initiate, then relentlessly pursue, secret annexation...
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    President John Tyler selected Henshaw as Secretary of the Navy to follow Abel P. Upshur. During his brief term in office, he addressed shipbuilding problems...
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    political leaders, including President John Tyler, Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, and South Carolina Governor James Henry Hammond. Tucker was a Freemason...
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    USS Paulding (DD-22) USS Roe (DD-24) USS Trippe (DD-33) Clemson-class destroyers USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) USS George E. Badger (DD-196) USS Herndon (DD-198) USS Hunt (DD-194)...
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    children borne to plantation owner and politician Littleton Upshur. His elder brother Abel P. Upshur inherited the family plantation and continued their father's...
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  • created twice Cyclone Clare, which struck Western Australia in 2006 USS Abel P. Upshur (DD-193), a destroyer traded to the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Clare...
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    in the process of being fired. While Secretaries of State and Navy Abel P. Upshur and Thomas Walker Gilmer, Tyler's future father-in-law David Gardiner...
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  • December 10, 1832. An Exposition of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798, by Abel P. Upshur, defending nullification and South Carolina. A Review of the Proclamation...
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    By August, while Britain was reaching a low point, US Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy reported from London that a British surrender was "inevitable". Seeking...
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    After an explosion on the USS Princeton killed Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur in February 1844, Tyler brought Calhoun into his cabinet to direct foreign...
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    March 1841 – 11 September 1841 William Henry Harrison John Tyler 13 Abel P. Upshur Virginia 11 October 1841 – 23 July 1843 14 David Henshaw Massachusetts...
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    USS Princeton on the Potomac River, killing six, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer. March 12 – The Columbus...
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    the Canadian rebellions in the late 1830s with Secretary of the Navy Abel P. Upshur selecting an iron hull partly as a test of practicability of using such...
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    Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. Upshur served as United States Secretary of...
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  • the Colorado General Assembly Abel Upshur, U.S. Secretary of State Saint Abel (Syrian), a saint of the Syrian church Abel of Reims (fl. 744–747), saint...
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