Armistead Thomson Mason

Armistead Thomson Mason

Armistead Thomson Mason ( August 4, 1787 in Louisa County , Virginia , † February 6, 1819 in Maryland ) was a US Senator from 1816 to 1817.

Career

Armistead Thomson Mason, son of Stevens Thomson Mason , received his PhD from the College of William and Mary in 1807 and then worked in the field of agriculture until he was made Colonel in the Virginia Volunteers in the British-American War in 1812. During that war, he became Brigadier General in the Virginia Militia .

He was elected to the US Senate as a member of the Democratic Republican Party to close the vacancy created by the resignation of William Branch Giles . Mason held this office from January 3, 1816 to March 3, 1817.

He then moved to Loudoun County and ran unsuccessfully for the 15th United States Congress in 1816 . This bitter election campaign led him to several duels. His last duel was with his brother-in-law John Mason McCarty in Maryland , near Washington , where he found his death.

Web links

• Armistead Thomson Mason in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)