Joseph Mason (politician, 1828)

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 New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

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

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SURNAME	Mason, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plattsburgh , New York
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1914
Place of death	Hamilton , New York