Thomson Mason

Thomson Mason (14 August 1733 – 26 February 1785) was a prominent Virginia lawyer, jurist, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Mason was a younger brother of George Mason IV, United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, father of Stevens Thomson Mason, a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature, and a U.S. Senator from Virginia, and great-grandfather of Stevens T. Mason, first Governor of Michigan.

Personal facts

Birth dateAugust 14, 1733
Birth nameThomson Mason
Birth place
Chopawamsic (plantation) , Stafford County Virginia , Colony of Virginia
Nationality
Kingdom of Great Britain
United States
Ethnicity
European American
Religion
Church of England
Episcopal Church (United States)
Citizenship
Kingdom of Great Britain
United States
Date of deathFebruary 26, 1785
Place of death
Chopawamsic (plantation) , Virginia , Stafford County Virginia
Residence
Chopawamsic (plantation) , Raspberry Plain , Virginia , Stafford County Virginia , Leesburg Virginia
Education
College of William & Mary
Parents
Children

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