John Thomson Mason, Jr.

John Thomson Mason, Jr. ( born May 9, 1815 " Montpelier ", near Hagerstown, Maryland, † March 28, 1873 in Elkton, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party).

Career

Mason was taught by a private tutor and then graduated in 1836 at Princeton College. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1838 and opened his own law practice in Hagerstown. He was also from 1838 to 1839 in the Senate of Maryland worked. He was then elected as a Democrat to the 27th U.S. Congress, where he represented the 6th District of Maryland. He remained there on 4 March 1841 to 3 March 1843. Later he worked as a judge at the Maryland Court of Appeals from 1851 to 1857. In the same year he started in Baltimore as U.S. Collector of Customs at work, an activity which he held until 1861. Then he moved to Annapolis. Then he worked as Secretary of State of Maryland from 1872 until his death in 1873.

He was buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown.

Family

He was the son of John Thomson Mason (1765-1824) and Elizabeth ( Beltzhoover ) Mason ( 1781-1836 ), grandson of Thomas Mason, great-nephew of George Mason Stevens Thomson Mason and nephew ( 1760-1803 ). He was also the first cousin of Armistead Thomson Mason, John Thomson Mason (1787-1850), James Murray Mason, Stevens Thomson Mason (1811-1843) and second cousin of Thomson Francis Mason. On December 14, 1842 he married Margaret Augusta Cowan ( 1821-1899 ).