List of United States Political Families (M) - The Masons of Virginia

The Masons of Virginia

  • George Mason (1725–1792), member of the Virginia Legislature 1759 1776–1780 1786–1788, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention 1787 1788. Brother of Thomson Mason.
  • Thomson Mason (1730–1785), Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court. Brother of George Mason.
    • Stevens Thomson Mason (1760–1803), member of the Virginia Legislature, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1794–1803. Son of Thomson Mason.
    • John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), Attorney General of Maryland 1806. Son of Thomson Mason.
      • Thomson F. Mason (1785–1838), Mayor of Alexandria, District of Columbia 1827–1830. Grandson of George Mason.
      • Armistead T. Mason (1787–1819), U.S. Senator from Virginia 1816–1817. Son of Stevens Thomson Mason.
      • John T. Mason (1787–1850), Secretary of Michigan Territory 1830–1831. Son of Stevens Thomson Mason.
      • James M. Mason (1798–1871), Virginia House Delegate 1826, delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1829, U.S. Representative from Virginia 1837–1839, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1847–1861, Delegate to the Confederate States Provisional Congress from Virginia 1861, Confederate States Envoy to England 1861. Grandson of George Mason.
      • John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815–1873), Maryland House Delegate 1838–1839, U.S. Representative from Maryland 1841–1843, Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals 1851–1857, U.S. Collector of Customs of Baltimore, Maryland 1857–1861; Maryland Secretary of State 1872–1873. Son of John Thomson Mason.
        • Stevens T. Mason (1811–1843), Secretary of Michigan Territory 1831, Governor of Michigan Territory 1834–1835, Governor of Michigan 1835–1840. Son of John T. Mason.
          • C. O'Conor Goolrick, Virginia House Delegate 1908, Virginia State Senator 1915 1923, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1924. Great-great-great-grandson of George Mason.

NOTE: Armistead T. Mason and John T. Mason were also brothers-in-law of U.S. Representative Benjamin Howard and U.S. Postmaster General William T. Barry.

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