Thomson Francis Mason | |
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Born | 1785 |
Died | December 21, 1838 (aged 52–53) |
Alma mater | College of New Jersey |
Occupation(s) | lawyer, councilman, judge, and mayor of Alexandria, D.C. |
Spouse | Elizabeth "Betsey" Clapham Price |
Children | 9, including Arthur Pendleton Mason |
Father | Thomas Mason |
Thomson Francis Mason (1785 – 21 December 1838)[1][2] was an American lawyer, planter and politician who served as the mayor of Alexandria (then in the District of Columbia, but now Virginia) between 1827 and 1830, and as a justice of the peace for many years and briefly in the months before his death as a judge of the Washington, D.C., criminal court.[2]