William Upham

:"This article is about the U.S. Senator from Vermont. For the Governor of Wisconsin, see William H. Upham."Infobox Senator
name=William Upham

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jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Vermont
party=Whig
term=March 4, 1843 – January 14, 1853
preceded=Samuel C. Crafts
succeeded=Samuel S. Phelps
date of birth=birth date|1792|8|5|mf=y
place of birth=Leicester, Massachusetts, U.S.
date of death=death date|1853|1|14|mf=y
place of death=Washington, D.C., U.S.
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profession=Politician, Lawyer
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William Upham (August 5, 1792 – January 14, 1853) was a United States Senator from Vermont.

Born in Leicester, Massachusetts, he moved with his father to Montpelier, Vermont in 1802. He attended the district schools, the Montpelier Academy, and was privately tutored; he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Montpelier in 1812. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1827 to 1828 and was State's attorney for Washington County in 1829; he was again a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1830.

In 1843 he was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate in 1843. He was reelected in 1849 and served from March 4, 1843 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1853. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-eighth Congress) and of the Committee on Pensions (Twenty-ninth Congress).

Interment was in the Congressional Cemetery. He was suffering from smallpox at the time of his death, but is unknown if it was the cause of death.

Quotations

*"...a crime against humanity and a sore evil in the body politic." (On slavery)

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6897642 William Upham] at Find A Grave

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NAME=Upham, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=United States Senator from Vermont
DATE OF BIRTH=August 5, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH=Leicester, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH=January 14, 1853
PLACE OF DEATH=