| LC control no. | n 87134629 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mason, Armistead Thomson, 1787-1819 |
| Variant(s) | Mason, Armistead Thompson, 1787-1819 |
| Other standard no. | Q256631 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Virginia |
| Birth date | 1787-08-04 |
| Death date | 1819-02-06 |
| Place of birth | Louisa County (Va.) |
| Place of death | Bladensburg (Md.) |
| Affiliation | College of William & Mary United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1792-1828) |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators--United States |
| Found in | nuc87-14442: His Controversy between Armistead ... [MI] 1818 (hdg. on Readex rept.: Mason, Armistead Thomson, 1787-1819; usage: Armistead Thompson Mason) LCCN 12-23845: His Controversy between Armistead ... 1818 (hdg.: Mason, Armistead Thomson, 1787-1819; usage: Armistead Thompson Mason) Masque of honor, 2021: ECIP page 8 (Armistead Thomson Mason of Selma, son of Polly, grandnephew of George Mason IV) Wikipedia, October 6, 2021: "Armistead Thomson Mason (August 4, 1787 - February 6, 1819) the son of Stevens Thomson Mason, was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistead_Thomson_Mason> Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed April 16, 2024 (Mason, Armistead Thomson, (son of Stevens Thomson Mason), a Senator from Virginia; born at the "Armisteads," in Louisa County, Va., August 4, 1787; graduated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1807; engaged in agricultural pursuits; colonel of Virginia Volunteers in the War of 1812 and subsequently brigadier general of Virginia Militia; elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Giles and served from January 3, 1816, to March 3, 1817; moved to Loudoun County, Va.; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress in a campaign of much bitterness, which gave rise to several duels, and later resulted in his being killed in a duel with his brother-in-law, John Mason McCarty, at Bladensburg, Md., near Washington, D.C., February 6, 1819; interment in the churchyard of the Episcopal Church at Leesburg, Loudoun County, Va.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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