Mason S. Peters

Mason Summers Peters ( * September 3, 1844 in Kearney, Clay County, Missouri, † February 14, 1914 in Kansas City, Missouri ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mason Peters visited the William Jewell College in Liberty ( Missouri) and then worked 1870-1874 in Clay County as a teacher. From 1870 to 1874 he was an administrative clerk at the District Court in Clinton County. After studying law and its made ​​in 1875 admitted to the bar Peters began in Plattsburg to work in his new profession.

In 1886 he moved to the Wyandotte County in Kansas. There he founded in 1895 the Union Livestock Commission, a ranchers ' association. Politically, he was a member of the short-lived Populist Party. In the congressional elections of 1896 Peters as its candidate in the second district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1897, the successor of Orrin Larrabee Miller. Because it did in 1898 is not confirmed, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1899.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Mason Peters moved back out of politics. He devoted himself to his private and business affairs and died in 1914 in Kansas City.