Joseph Mason (New York)

Joseph Mason ( born March 30, 1828 in Plattsburgh, New York, † May 31 1914 in Hamilton, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Mason was born 1828 in Clinton County. The family moved in 1840 to Hamilton in Madison County. There he attended the Hamilton Academy and Madison College (now Colgate University). He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1849, he began practicing in Hamilton. In 1849 he was elected justice of the peace - a post he held until 1904. In addition, he was elected magistrate, as well as guardianship and estate judge in Madison County. He joined the post on January 1, 1864, and held this for four years. Between 1871 and 1876 he worked as a tax collector (Collector of Internal Revenue ). Then he was for many years as a prosecutor (city attorney ) worked. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1878 for the 46th Congress Mason was in the 24th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William H. Baker on March 4, 1879. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up a re-election bid in 1882, he retired after March 3, 1883 from the Congress. After his conference time he went to Hamilton back to his work as a lawyer after. He died there about two months before the outbreak of the First World War. His body was then interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery.