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A gun explodes on board the steam warship USS Princeton during a pleasure cruise down the Potomac River, killing six, including Secretary of State Abel Upshur. President John Tyler, who was also on board, was not injured from the blast.
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USS Princeton (1843)
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River in the Mid-Atlantic United States
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Abel P. Upshur
American politician (1790–1844)
Abel Parker Upshur was an American lawyer, planter, judge, and politician from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. 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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
John Tyler
President of the United States from 1841 to 1845
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