Thomas was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1836 by Congressman John Y. Mason, who warned Thomas that no nominee from his district had ever graduated successfully.

Mason famously read aloud the dying Senator John C. Calhoun's final speech to the Senate, on March 4, 1850, which warned of disunion and dire consequences if the North did not guarantee the South permanently equal representation in Congress.

" Paxton simply grins, suspecting otherwise as he, too, sympathizes with Mason.

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In the 1881 census nearly a quarter of the inhabitants of that hamlet ( three families ) had the surname Mason ( an otherwise uncommon name in that part of England ); based on this and other circumstantial evidence he proposes that the Mason family could have been the custodians of a hereditary witchcraft tradition.

In January 1835, frustrated by the political stalemate, Michigan's acting territorial Governor Stevens T. Mason called for a constitutional convention to be held in May of that year despite Congress ' refusal to approve an enabling act authorizing such a state constitution.

Virginians such as George Mason and Patrick Henry wanted to ensure that this restriction would also be applied as a limitation on Congress.

* 1918 October 3-Eighteen months after United States Congress declares war on Germany, the Mason County Council of Defense draws up resolution to abandon the use of the German language in the county.

On October 3, 1918 October, eighteen months after United States Congress declared war on Germany, the Mason County Council of Defense drew up resolution to abandon the use of the German language in the county.

Mason received a letter from U. S. Secretary of State John Forsyth that Congress might use its prerogatives over a territory to force a compromise with Ohio if Michigan refused to bend on the Pains and Penalties Act.

" George T. Bigelow, the chief justice of Massachusetts, spoke admiringly of Wilkes: “ In common with all loyal men of the North, I have been sighing, for the last six months, for someone who would be willing to say to himself, ‘ I will take the responsibility .’” On December 2 Congress passed unanimously a resolution thanking Wilkes “ for his brave, adroit and patriotic conduct in the arrest and detention of the traitors, James M. Mason and John Slidell ” and proposing that he receive a “ gold medal with suitable emblems and devices, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his good conduct .”

The Second World Congress was held in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D. C., in July 2008, with George Mason University taking the lead role in local arrangements.

In 1836, facing financial difficulties due to Michigan not being recognized as a state, Mason agreed to a compromise reached by the U. S. Congress and agreed to cede the disputed land to Ohio in exchange for the western two-thirds of the Upper Peninsula ( Michigan already included the eastern third ).

Mason made his first mark on the chess scene in 1876, when he won the Fourth American Congress in Philadelphia, the New York Clipper tournament, and defeated Henry Bird in a match by the comfortable margin of 13 – 6.

Winnifred Mason Huck ( September 14, 1882 – August 24, 1936 ) was an American journalist and politician from the state of Illinois who became the third woman to serve in the United States Congress, after Jeannette Rankin and Alice Mary Robertson, the first woman to represent Illinois in Congress, and the first mother.

The Nolans ' grave at Holy Cross CemeteryNolan was the fourth woman elected to Congress, after Jeannette Rankin, Alice Mary Robertson, and Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck.

Her term started on June 30, 1925, making her the sixth woman elected to Congress, after Jeannette Rankin, Alice Mary Robertson, Winnifred Sprague Mason Huck, Mae Nolan, Florence Kahn, and Mary Teresa Norton.

Suddenly one of the most vocal hawks, Senator James Murray Mason, from Virginia, proposed a bill in Congress for the government to buy Resolute, refurbish her, and sail her back to Britain as a present.

( Thus the document published as the U. S. Congress, Senate Select Commission on the Harper's Ferry Invasion ( June 15, 1860 ) is often referred to as the Mason Report.

A typical conservative Republican in Congress was Noah M. Mason ( 1882 – 1965 ), who represented a rural downstate district in Illinois from 1937 to 1962.

I hope it may come to pass ... He told me He loved Mason Remey so much ,” Thompson writes, “ and He loved me so much that he wished us to marry.

The Scottish Rite is one of the appendant bodies of Freemasonry that a Master Mason may join for further exposure to the principles of Freemasonry.

They may introduce the practice of France, Spain, and Germany ...." Ultimately, Henry and Mason prevailed, and the Eighth Amendment was adopted.

It was published by John Mason Neale in 1853, and may be a translation of a poem by Czech poet Václav Alois Svoboda.

" Wilson may have been an alias for Mason, a front man for his criminal operation, or another outlaw leader who ran a gang of pirates in the region.

Generally speaking those who have only received the Entered Apprentice degree are considered Freemasons, but hold limited privileges until they attain the Master Mason degree ; under UGLE only a Master Mason will receive a Grand Lodge certificate, which may be demanded by any other Lodge he wishes to visit.

A Mason may be expelled from his Lodge and Freemasonry in general if convicted of particularly serious violations of Civil or Masonic law.

A Master Mason " in good standing " ( i. e. whose dues are current and who is not subject to Masonic investigation or discipline ) may join another regular Lodge ; he need not take his degrees again, but may be expected to serve the new Lodge in office.

If a Master Mason is dropped from the rolls for non-payment of dues, under most circumstances he may be immediately reinstated in good standing simply by paying his current dues as well as any back dues owed, although in many jurisdictions there is a requirement to ballot for re-admission.

In some Grand Lodges an Entered Apprentice or Fellowcraft may not receive a demit, but may join another Lodge with the intent of earning the Master Mason Degree with the consent of his original Lodge.

The York Rite is one of the appendant bodies of Freemasonry that a Master Mason may join to further his knowledge of Freemasonry.

John Mason in An essay on elocution ( 1748 ) prescribes " A Comma Stops the Voice while we may privately tell one, a Semi Colon two ; a Colon three: and a Period four.

Mason Klein, curator of a Man Ray exhibition at the Jewish Museum entitled Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, suggests that the artist may have been " the first Jewish avant-garde artist.

More unusual committees abound at the collegiate level ; for instance, a college conference may simulate the Greco-Persian Wars via a committee of the Greek poleis, have a committee simulating the National Football League's annual owners meeting, as held at George Mason University MUN in 2009, or even have a committee simulating President David Palmer's cabinet from the TV show 24, simulated by the University of Pennsylvania Model UN Conference in 2007 .< ref >

Macon is a surname ( variants include Mason, Meason ), and may refer to:

The stones may be a few to a few hundred feet east or west of the point Mason and Dixon thought they were ; in any event, the line drawn from stone to stone forms the legal boundary.

A group of about 400 black bloc anarchists took part in the 2011 London anti-cuts protest where they attacked various high end retail outlets ; according to journalist Paul Mason this may have been the largest ever black block assembly in the UK.

These superstitions may not only have arisen to prevent people from committing the faux pas of yawning loudly in another's presence ( one of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is " A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction.

Steve Mason asserts that, if the Massacre of the Innocents had taken place as reported in Matthew, it would have been strange for Josephus not to mention it, and that the massacre may hence be non-historical.

Mason may refer to:

** Mason Recreation Center has an indoor gymnasium that may also be used as a 400-capacity auditorium, which houses a kitchen, a multi-purpose field, and a stage.