William Mason (U.S. politician)

William Mason ( born September 10, 1786 in Lebanon, Connecticut; † January 13, 1860 in Norwich, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1835 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Mason was born about three years after the end of the Revolutionary War in New London County. He studied medicine in Vermont and then practiced in Preston. During the British - American War in 1812, he served as a surgeon ( surgeon ) in the Chenango County company of New York Volunteers. In the years 1820 and 1821 he worked as a clerk in Chenango County. He sat in 1821 and 1822 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1834 for the 24th Congress Mason was in the 21st electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Mitchell on March 4, 1835. He retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress.

Mason died about a year before the outbreak of the civil war in Norwich and was then buried in the Mount Hope Cemetery.