Chief Justices of the Virginia Supreme Court - Thomson Mason, Harry L. Carrico, Robert R. Prentis, Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. (Paperback)

Chapters: Thomson Mason, Harry L. Carrico, Robert R. Prentis, Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr., Lawrence W. I'anson, Henry W. Holt, Edward W. Hudgins, John W. Eggleston, Preston W. Campbell, Harold Fleming Snead. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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 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. Mason was born at Chopawamsic plantation in Stafford County, Virginia on 14 August 1733. He was the third and youngest child of George Mason III and his wife Ann Stevens Thomson. Mason was educated at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia and then studied law at the Middle Temple in London. Afterwards, he returned to Virginia and was a burgess in the House of Burgesses representing Stafford and Loudoun counties from 1766 to 1775. In 1778, Mason was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and served only briefly before serving as one of five judges in the General Court. From 1779 to 1783, Mason was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and served as chairman of the Committee on Courts of Justice. In 1760, Mason purchased Raspberry Plain plantation in Loudoun County, Virginia In 1771, Thomson built the mansion at Raspberry Plain. Upon Thomson's death, the Raspberry Plain estate was deeded to his eldest son Stevens Thomson Mason. Mason marrie...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2155061