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Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of State 1844 Old_Charleston Horace Mann 19th Century —Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of State 1844. A portrait of the Virginian jurist who steered Tyler's State Department toward the annexation of Texas, captured in the months before the Princeton's gun burst on the Potomac and ended his negotiations mid sentence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic