Jonathan Mason (politician)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search
Jonathan Mason
Jonathan Mason (politician)

Senior Senator, Massachusetts
In office
1800-1803
Preceded by Benjamin Goodhue
Succeeded by John Quincy Adams

Born September 12, 1756(1756-09-12)
Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Died November 1, 1831
Political party Federalist

Jonathan Mason (September 12, 1756November 1, 1831) was a Federalist United States Senator and Representative from Massachusetts during the early years of the United States.

Mason was born in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He attended Boston Latin School the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), graduating in 1774. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1779, he was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1786 to 1796. From 1797 to 1798, he served with the Massachusetts Governor's Council and was elected to the for the following two years, and was in the Massachusetts Senate from 1799 to 1800. Following the resignation of Senator Benjamin Goodhue, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served from November 14, 1800 to March 3, 1803. He then resumed his law practice and served again in the Massachusetts Senate from 1803 to 1804 and the Massachusetts House from 180508. He served again in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1817, to May 15, 1820, whereupon he resigned to pursue his law practice. He is interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Preceded by
Benjamin Goodhue
United States Senator (Class 1) from Massachusetts
1801-1803
Served alongside: Dwight Foster
Succeeded by
John Quincy Adams
Preceded by
Artemas Ward, Jr.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district

March 4, 1813-March 3, 1820
Succeeded by
Benjamin Gorham
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.