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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. [1] 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 Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State during the administration of ...
Upshur County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,816. [2] Its county seat is Buckhannon. [3] The county was formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. [4]
A year after his death, Gilmer County, Virginia was named in his honor; [2] it is now part of West Virginia. The city of Gilmer, Texas, is also named for him. (Gilmer is the county seat of surrounding Upshur County, Texas, named after Abel Parker Upshur, (1790–1844), another victim of the USS Princeton explosion which had taken Gilmer's life.)
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 United Kingdom in 1940. During World War II , she served in the Royal Navy as HMS Clare .
Upshur County, West Virginia, county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia; Surname: Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), American lawyer, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State; Franklin Upshur (1875–1965), American politician and lawyer; George M. Upshur (1847–1924), American politician and lawyer
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, West Virginia University (2012, 2011, 2010). West Virginia University sent incomplete 2013 and 2014 reports and did not respond to multiple requests for updated versions. Read our methodology here. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
USS Princeton was a screw steam warship of the United States Navy.Commanded by Captain Robert F. Stockton, Princeton was launched on September 5, 1843.. On February 28, 1844, during a Potomac River pleasure cruise for dignitaries, one gun exploded, killing six people, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, and injuring others, including a ...
As of mid-January, in hard-hit West Virginia, there are just 235 doctors who are certified to dispense buprenorphine, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. There are 183 in Nevada, 89 in Arkansas and 60 in Iowa. In all of Texas, a state of roughly 27 million people, there are only 1,046 doctors certified to prescribe the medications.