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    John Young Mason (April 18, 1799 – October 3, 1859) was a United States representative from Virginia, the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the...
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  • John Mason may refer to: John Mason (playwright) (fl. 1609), British playwright John Mason (poet) (1646–1694), English clergyman, poet, and hymn-writer...
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  • Mason may refer to: Jeremiah Mason (1768–1848), Attorney General of New Hampshire John Thomson Mason (1765–1824), Attorney General of Maryland John Y...
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    ministers in Europe—Pierre Soulé for Spain, James Buchanan for Britain, and John Y. Mason for France—met to discuss strategy related to an acquisition of Cuba...
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    January 1845, as Jackson died that June. Tyler's last Navy Secretary, John Y. Mason of Virginia, Polk's friend since college days and a longtime political...
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    (H81). The first Navy ship named for Secretary of the Navy John Y. Mason (1799–1859), Mason was laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company...
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    to negotiate the acquisition of Cuba. Pierce appointed expansionists John Y. Mason of Virginia and Solon Borland of Arkansas as ministers, respectively...
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    John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as...
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    Navy warship with the name USS Mason. The first Mason (DD-191), in service from 1920 to 1941, was named for John Young Mason, well known for his service...
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    Though Polk was personally close with the incumbent Navy Secretary, John Y. Mason, he replaced him after Jackson insisted that none of Tyler's cabinet...
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  • reside elsewhere are still considered citizens. In 1854 Marcy wrote John Y. Mason, the U.S. Minister to France: In reply to the inquiry ... whether "the...
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    1830 John Y. Mason 1850 John Janney 1861 Richmond Arthur I. Boreman 1861 Wheeling Francis Pierpont, Loyalist Governor called 1864 Convention John C. Underwood...
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    but failed due to the opposition of Senator and former U.S. Navy officer John McCain. The Department of the Navy (DoN) consists of two uniformed services:...
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    Jeanine Marie Mason (born January 14, 1991) is an American actress and dancer. Her acting career began after winning the fifth season of the Fox television...
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    Sarah Y. Mason (March 31, 1896 – November 28, 1980) was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter and script supervisor. Mason was born Sarah Yeiser...
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    James Neville Mason (/ˈmeɪsən/; 15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor. He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a...
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  • General James Lyons (1801–1882), politician, Confederate Congressman John Y. Mason (1799–1859), U.S. Congressman, Secretary of the Navy, 18th Attorney...
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  • E. Mason (1913–2003), New York State Senate Garrett Mason (born 1985), Maine State Senate James W. Mason (1841–1875), Arkansas State Senate John Y. Mason...
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    Elizabeth Baker of Shepherdstown, now in West Virginia. Her late father, John Baker, had been a member of the United States House of Representatives. They...
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    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...
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    the next legislature again elected Rives as Senator, this time to replace John Tyler (thus he did not succeed himself). During his third term, Rives had...
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    is set on a brick foundation. Fortsville was the home of statesman John Y. Mason (1799–1859). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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    James Dandridge Halyburton (category United States federal judges appointed by John Tyler)
    President John Tyler on June 15, 1844, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia vacated by Judge John Y. Mason. He...
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    American minister John Y. Mason that Belmont had appointed him special attaché. Gibson in turn represented himself around Paris as Mason's first secretary...
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    player; now coaches the Greensvile County Highschool's basketball team John Y. Mason (1799-1859), U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Congressman, U.S. Attorney...
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    White House with President James K. Polk. He was also entertained by John Y. Mason, the former United States Secretary of the Navy, who informed him that...
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  • of Virginia from the foundation of the Commonwealth to the present time. John T. West, Richmond. ISBN 978-1-2879-2059-5. United States Congress. "James...
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    Convention met from October 14, 1850 - August 1, 1851, and elected John Y. Mason its presiding officer. The Convention featured fierce debates, the arguments...
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    negotiate with the French Republic. The members of the commission — Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry — were all accredited with the rank of Envoy...
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    Some time after John Horse's return from his second mission to Washington, and Jesup's own visit and subsequent return east, John Y. Mason, US Attorney-General...
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