George Mason
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Government and Politics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Authors, Writers, American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements
- Curriculum: American Colonial History (1607-1775), American Revolutionary History (1776-1788)
Article abstract: Author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Mason also had a major role in shaping the Virginia constitution of 1776 and the United States Constitution.
Early Life
George Mason was born in the year 1725, on the family’s plantation on Dogue’s Neck (modern Fairfax County, along the Potomac River). His father, the third George Mason, drowned in a ferry accident when Mason was ten years old. His mother, Ann Thomson Mason, then took the family to her dower plantation, Chopawamsic, south of the Occoquan River. Along with his mother, his...
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