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Stevens Thomson Mason ( December 29 , 1760 – May 9 , 1803 ) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War , a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia (1794-1803). Mason was born at Chappawamsic in Stafford County, Virginia and attended William And Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia . He studied law, was admitted to the Bar , and commenced practice in Dumfries, Virginia in Prince William County, Virginia . He served in the Continental Army as an aide to General George Washington at the Battle Of Yorktown and was a brigadier general in the Virginia Militia. He was a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates in 1783 and 1794, a member of the Virginia State Senate 1787-1790, and a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1788. In 1794, Mason was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Monroe . He was reelected in 1797 and again in 1803, serving from November 18 , 1794 , until his death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . He is interred in the family burying ground at "Raspberry Plain" in Loudoun County, Virginia . Mason's father, Thomson Mason (1730-1785), was chief justice of the Virginia supreme court and brother of George Mason (1725-1792), who took part of the Constitutional Convention . His son, Armistead Thompson Mason (1787-1819), was a U.S. Senator from Virginia. His grandson, Stevens Thomson Mason , was the first governor of the state of Michigan . |
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