Abraham Watkins Venable (October 17, 1799 – February 24, 1876) was a 19th-century US politician and lawyer from North Carolina.

Born at "Springfield", his father's Prince Edward County, Virginia plantation, Venable graduated from Hampden–Sydney College in 1816.

Venable practiced law in Virginia in both Prince Edward and Mecklenburg counties until 1829 when he moved to North Carolina.

Venable was an elector in the 1860 United States presidential election on the Democratic ticket for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.

[4] When Virginia declared secession from the United States, Venable joined Confederacy and was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress.