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George Mason
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American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1725-1792)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Organizational demand for use of cable television in Corvallis, Oregon
- An estimate of income tax evasion in Oregon
- Effects of air pollution on public attitudes and knowledge
- Effects of prison vocational training and educational programs on employment success and recidivism
- Estimated readership of public notices in Oregon
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 158
- Total plays
- 1,217
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
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· 2015 · cited 40,865x
- Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers
· 1984 · cited 33,960x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 27,619x
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Quotes
- “Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniences and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.”
- “We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”
- “I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I could expect Comfort.”
- “This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extremely disagreeable.”
- “I quitted my seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.”
- “I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Charles Simms
- Succeeded by
- Roger West
- Born
- George Mason , ( 1725-12-11 ) December 11, 1725, Fairfax County , Virginia, British America
- Died
- October 7, 1792 (1792-10-07) (aged 66), Gunston Hall , Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.
- Resting place
- Mason Family Cemetery, Lorton, Virginia , U.S., 38°40′07″N 77°10′06″W / 38.6686°N 77.1682°W / 38.6686; -77.1682
- Spouses
- Ann Eilbeck ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1750 ; died 1773 ) Sarah Brent ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1780 )
- Children
- George Ann William Thomson Sarah Mary John Elizabeth Thomas James Richard
- Parents
- George Mason III Ann Stevens Thomson
- Occupation
- Landowner
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Encyclopedic overview
George Mason (December 11, 1725 [O.S. November 30, 1725] – October 7, 1792) was an American planter, politician, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Mason principally authored, served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights, of which he has been deemed a father.
Mason was born in 1725 in present-day Fairfax County, Virginia. His father drowned while crossing the Potomac River in 1735 when Mason was nine years old. His mother managed the family estates until he came of age. Mason married in 1750, built Gunston Hall, and lived the life of a country squire, supervising his lands, family, and slaves. He briefly served in the House of Burgesses and involved himself in community affairs, sometimes serving with his neighbor George Washington. As tensions grew between Great Britain and the North American colonies, Mason came to support the colonial side, using his knowledge and experience to help the revolutionary cause, finding ways to work around the Stamp Act 1765 and serving in the pro-independence Fourth Virginia Convention in 1775 and the Fifth Virginia Convention in 1776.
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