OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
John Young Mason

BORN:
April 18, 1799,
Hicksford (now Emporia) Virginia

DIED:
October 3, 1859 (age 60)
Paris, France

EDUCATION:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (AB, 1816)
Litchfield (Tapping Reeve) Law School
Read Law (1819)

POLITICAL PARTY: 
Democratic

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1819-1821:
Practiced Law in Greensville County, Virginia
1821-1831:
Practiced Law in Southampton County, Virginia 
1823-1827:
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates
1827-1831:
Virginia State Senator 
1829:
Delegate to the Virginia State Constitutional Convention 
1831-1837:
U.S. House of Representatives
1837-1841:
Practiced Law in Hicksford (now Emporia), Virginia 
1841-1844:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia 
1844-1845
U.S. Secretary of the Navy
1845-1846:
U.S. Attorney General 
1846-1849: 
U.S. Secretary of the Navy
1849-1854:
Practiced Law in Richmond, Virginia 
1850:
Delegate to the Virginia State Constitutional Convention 
1854-1859:
U.S. Minister to France

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
U.S. Navy
Department of Justice
Wikipedia