Politicians
- John Mason (15th-century MP), Member of Parliament for Lewes and East Grinstead
- John Mason (Australian politician) (born 1928), Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- John Mason (diplomat) (1503–1566), British diplomat and spy
- John Mason (governor) (1586–1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire
- John Mason (Scottish politician) (born 1957), Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston and former Member of Parliament for Glasgow East
- John Mason (New Zealand politician) (1881–1975), New Zealand politician
- John Thomson Mason, Jr. (1815–1873), U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of John Thomson Mason (1765–1824)
- John Y. Mason (1799–1859), U.S. Representative from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy
- John Calvin Mason (1802–1865), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- John James Mason (1842–1903), Canadian politician
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