Upham, William, 1792-1853

LC control no.	no 89011253
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Upham, William, 1792-1853 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	17920805
Death date	18530114
Place of birth	Leicester (Mass.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	Whig Party (U.S.) Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives United States. Congress. Senate
Profession or occupation	Legislators Lawyers
Found in	His Speech of Mr. Upham, of Vermont, on the Three million bill, 1847. Appletons' (Upham, William; b. 8/1792; d. 1/14/1853) Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, May 11, 2015 (Upham, William, a Senator from Vermont; born in Leicester, Mass., August 5, 1792; moved with his father to Montpelier, Vt., in 1802; attended the district schools, the Montpelier Academy, and was privately tutored; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Montpelier, Vt., in 1812; member, State house of representatives 1827-1828; State's attorney for Washington County 1829; member, State house of representatives 1830; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1843; reelected in 1849 and served from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 14, 1853; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-eighth Congress), Committee on Pensions (Twenty-ninth Congress); interment in the Congressional Cemetery.)
Associated language	eng