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These families each have three or more politician members,
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This specific family group is a subset of the
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These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
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George Mason (1725-1792) —
of Virginia.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., December
11, 1725.
Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1759; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1776-80, 1786-88; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787-88.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Fairfax
County, Va., October
7, 1792 (age 66 years, 301
days).
Interment at Gunston
Hall Grounds, Near Lorton, Fairfax County, Va.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of George Mason (1690-1735) and Ann (Thomson) Mason; brother of Thomson
Mason; married, April 4,
1750, to Ann Eilbeck; married, April
11, 1780, to Sarah Brent (aunt of George
Graham); uncle of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1760-1803) and John
Thomson Mason (1765-1824); grandfather of Thomson
Francis Mason and James
Murray Mason; granduncle of John
Thomson Mason (1787-1850), Armistead
Thomson Mason and John
Thomson Mason Jr.; great-grandfather of Fitzhugh
Lee; great-granduncle of Stevens
Thomson Mason (1811-1843); third great-grandfather of Charles
O'Conor Goolrick; fourth great-granduncle of Jerauld
Wright. |
| | | Political family: Mason
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Mason counties in Ky. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
| | | George Mason University,
Fairfax,
Virginia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about George Mason: Jeff
Broadwater, George
Mason : Forgotten Founder |
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Thomson Mason (1733-1785) —
of Virginia.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., August
14, 1733.
Lawyer;
chief
justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1770.
Died in Stafford
County, Va., February
26, 1785 (age 51 years, 196
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Howard (1760-1814) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., 1760.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1801-02; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1807-10; Governor
of Louisiana (Missouri) Territory, 1810-12; Governor
of Missouri Territory, 1812-13; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812.
Died in St.
Louis, Mo., September
18, 1814 (age about 54
years).
Original interment at Old
Grace Church Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.; reinterment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) —
of Virginia.
Born in Stafford
County, Va., December
29, 1760.
Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of Virginia state legislature, 1780; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1794-1803; died in office 1803.
Slaveowner.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 9,
1803 (age 42 years, 131
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
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John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) —
Born in Stafford
County, Va., March
15, 1765.
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1801; Maryland
state attorney general, 1806.
Died December
10, 1824 (age 59 years, 270
days).
Interment at Montpelier
Hill, Clear Spring, Md.
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George Graham (1770-1830) —
of Fairfax
County, Va.
Born in Dumfries, Prince
William County, Va., May 16,
1770.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Fairfax County, 1808-09; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1816-17; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Texas Republic, 1818; president, Washington branch, Bank of
the United States, 1819-23; Commissioner of the General Land Office,
1823-30; died in office 1830.
Died in Montgomery
County, Md., August
8, 1830 (age 60 years, 84
days).
Original interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1906 at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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William Taylor Barry (1784-1835) —
also known as William T. Barry —
of Kentucky.
Born near Lunenburg, Lunenburg
County, Va., February
5, 1784.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1807, 1814; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1810-11; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1814-16; state court judge in Kentucky,
1816-17; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1817-21; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1820-24; secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1824-25; justice of
Kentucky state supreme court, 1825; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1828; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1829-35.
Slaveowner.
Appointed Minister to Spain, but died en route to post, in Liverpool,
England,
August
30, 1835 (age 51 years, 206
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at St.
James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England; reinterment in 1854 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Thomson Francis Mason (1785-1838) —
also known as Thomson F. Mason —
of Alexandria, D.C. (now Va.).
Born in Fairfax
County, Va., 1785.
Mayor
of Alexandria, D.C., 1827-30.
Died in Alexandria, D.C (now Va.), December
21, 1838 (age about 53
years).
Original interment at Colross
Graveyard (which no longer exists), Alexandria, Va.; reinterment
at Christ
Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) —
also known as Armistead T. Mason —
of Virginia.
Born in Louisa
County, Va., August
4, 1787.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1816-17.
Slaveowner.
As a result of a bitter election campaign, was killed in
a duel
with Col. John Mason McCarty, at Bladensburg, Prince
George's County, Md., February
6, 1819 (age 31 years, 186
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Churchyard, Leesburg, Va.
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John Thomson Mason (1787-1850) —
also known as John T. Mason —
of near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va.; Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.; Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., January
8, 1787.
Secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1830-31.
Died, of malaria,
in the Fremont House hotel,
Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., April
17, 1850 (age 63 years, 99
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Wright (1794-1866) —
of Newark, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Clarksville, Rockland
County, N.Y., November
13, 1794.
Democrat. Mayor of
Newark, N.J., 1841-43; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 5th District, 1843-47; president,
Morris and Essex Railroad,
1843-66; candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, 1847; U.S.
Senator from New Jersey, 1853-59, 1863-66; died in office 1866;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey, 1860.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., November
1, 1866 (age 71 years, 353
days).
Interment at Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
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James Murray Mason (1798-1871) —
also known as James M. Mason —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Georgetown, Washington,
D.C., November
3, 1798.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1826; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 12th District, 1837-39; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1847-61; Delegate
from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861; Confederate
States Envoy to England, 1861.
Author of the Fugitive Slave Law. When the Civil War began, he left
Washington but did not resign his seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died April
28, 1871 (age 72 years, 176
days).
Interment at Christ
Church Episcopal Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
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Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843) —
also known as Stevens T. Mason; Tom Mason; "The
Boy Governor"; "Young Hotspur";
"The Stripling" —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born near Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., October
27, 1811.
Secretary
of Michigan Territory, 1831; Governor
of Michigan Territory, 1834-35; Governor of
Michigan, 1835-40.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
4, 1843 (age 31 years, 69
days).
Originally entombed at New
York Marble Cemetery, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1905 at Capitol
Park, Detroit, Mich.
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John Thomson Mason Jr. (1815-1873) —
of Baltimore,
Md.
Born near Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., May 9,
1815.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1838-39; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 6th District, 1841-43; Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1851-57; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1857-61; secretary
of state of Maryland, 1872-73.
Catholic.
Slaveowner.
Died in Elkton, Cecil
County, Md., March
28, 1873 (age 57 years, 323
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Md.
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Fitzhugh Lee (1835-1905) —
of Richmond,
Va.
Born in Clermont, Fairfax
County, Va., November
19, 1835.
Democrat. General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1872,
1876
(member, Credentials
Committee); Governor of
Virginia, 1886-90; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 5th
Virginia District, 1893-96; U.S. Consul General in Havana, 1896-98; general in the U.S. Army during the
Spanish-American War.
Episcopalian.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April
28, 1905 (age 69 years, 160
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Sydney Smith Lee and Anna Maria (Mason) Lee; married, April
19, 1871, to Ellen Bernard Fowle; father of Anne Lee (who married
James
Guthrie Harbord); nephew of James
Murray Mason and Robert E. Lee; grandson of Henry
Lee; grandnephew of Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; great-grandson of George
Mason; second great-grandnephew of Richard
Bland; third great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin thrice removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee and Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790); first cousin four times removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin twice removed of Thomas
Sim Lee, John
Randolph of Roanoke and Henry
St. George Tucker; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; third cousin once removed of John
Lee and Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker; third cousin twice removed of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846), Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Zachary
Taylor; fourth cousin of Francis
Preston Blair Lee; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Edmund
Randolph, Carter
Henry Harrison, John
Lee Carroll and Edward
Brooke Lee. |
| | | Political families: Lee-Randolph
family; Mason
family of Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also National Governors
Association biography — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Charles O'Conor Goolrick (1876-1960) —
also known as C. O'Conor Goolrick —
of Fredericksburg,
Va.
Born in Fredericksburg,
Va., November
25, 1876.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Spotsylvania County &
Fredericksburg city, 1908-09; member of Virginia
state senate 13th District, 1915-23; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Virginia, 1924;
delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died June 4,
1960 (age 83 years, 192
days).
Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Va.
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Jerauld Wright (1898-1995) —
also known as "Old Iron Heels"; "Old
Stoneface"; "El Supremo" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., June 4,
1898.
U.S. Navy Admiral; U.S. Ambassador to China (Taiwan), 1963-65.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., April
27, 1995 (age 96 years, 327
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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