resolutions calling for immediate withdrawal from Mexico or a quick conclusion to the war. He was an opponent of allowing slavery to extend beyond where it already existed, and voted against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and other details related to the Compromise of 1850. He was also a proponent of the Wilmot Proviso, which would have prevented the U.S. from extending slavery into any territory acquired as a result of the Mexican War. Death and burial Upham died of smallpox in Washington, D.C., on January 14, 1853; because he was believed to be contagious, his funeral was held quickly, and his remains were not returned to Vermont. He was buried at Congressional Cemetery. Quotations "...Slavery is a crime against humanity and a sore evil in the body politic." Family In 1814, Upham married Sarah Keyes; they were the parents of five children, four of whom lived to adulthood: William Keyes Upham (1817–1865), Charles Carroll Upham (1819–1868), Sarah Sumner (Upham) Langdon (1821–1888) and Mary Annette Upham (1825–1899), who died in the Windsor Hotel fire. Rice family and relations Upham was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows: William Upham, son of Martha Livermore (1768–1832), daughter of James Livermore, Jr. (1743–1825), son of Elizabeth Rice (1713–1799), daughter of Elisha Rice (1679–1761), son of Thomas Rice (1626–1681), son of Edmund Rice (1594–1663) See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) References External links 1792 births 1853 deaths People from Leicester, Massachusetts People from Montpelier, Vermont Vermont National Republicans Anti-Masonic Party politicians from Vermont Vermont Whigs 19th-century American politicians United States senators from Vermont Whig Party United States senators Members of the Vermont House of Representatives Vermont lawyers State's attorneys in Vermont American abolitionists American temperance activists Burials at the Congressional Cemetery 19th-century American lawyers Deaths from smallpox