US Congressman, Judge. He was a United States Representative from the State of Maryland. He represented the State of Maryland at both the state and national levels. He was born one of seven children to Thomas Sheredine (1699-1772), and his wife Tabitha Love Sheredine (1690-1769), in Baltimore County, Maryland, in about 1740, but the exact date is currently unknown to historians. He was from Baltimore County, Maryland, but moved with his family to a farm near Libertytown in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1754. He was educated locally and pursued academic studies. Following his education, He became interested in politics and served as a Delegate to the Maryland State Constitutional Convention in 1776. He also served as a Member of the State House of Delegates from 1777 to 1778, and as a Member of the Maryland State Senate from 1776 to 1781. He also served as a Judge in several courts in the State of Maryland. He served a term as a Judge of the Frederick County Maryland, Court of Appeals in 1777, a member of the special court which tried, convicted, and sentenced Tories on July 25, 1781. He also served as a Judge of the Orphans Court of Frederick County, Maryland, in 1777, and as an Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial District in 1791. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Daniel Carroll (1730-1796), on March 4, 1791. A Member of the Anti-Administration Party, he then served Maryland's 6th District Second Congress), as an At-Large Delegate in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1791, to March 3, 1793. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Gabriel Christie (1756-1808), on March 4, 1793. He is generally considered to have been part of the Anti-Administration faction in the United States Congress. In total, he was elected in 1790. After leaving the United States Congress, he was appointed Commissioner of the Fourth Division of Maryland for the valuation of land and houses and the enumeration of slaves beginning in 1798. A Member of the Episcopalian Faith, he was also a slave owner himself. He passed away after contracting yellow fever at his estate, Midhill, in Liberytown, Maryland, on January 14, 1800, at about the age of 59 or 60. Following his death, he was buried in a private cemetery on the Midhill Estate Grounds in Liberytown, Maryland. He was married twice, first to Eleanor Dorsey Sheredine (1745-1798), until her death in Frederick County, Maryland, her actual burial location is currently unknown, and to Sophia Dorsey Sheredine (1771-1821), in Frederick County, Maryland, on August 1, 1799, until her death on December 6, 1821, at the age of 50. He had no children. His second wife Sophia survived him and she passed away in Frederick County, Maryland, on December 6, 1821, at the age of 50, and she is buried in Central Cemetery in New London, Maryland. His newspaper obituary that appeared in The Maryland Gazette dated January 23, 1800, said of him, "Upton Sheredine, Esq. First commissioner under the law of the United States and the direct tax in the district of Maryland, in his death the public has sustained a great loss."