Henry F. Mason
{{Short description|American judge (1860–1927)}}
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Henry Freeman Mason (February 17, 1860 – May 4, 1927) was a Republican politician and justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 12, 1903 to May 4, 1927.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kslib.info/legislators/membm2.html |title=Kansas Legislators Past and Present-Henry F. Mason |access-date=2011-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725013711/http://www.kslib.info/legislators/membm2.html |archive-date=2011-07-25 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Mason was born Henry Freeman Mason on February 17, 1860 to Lemuel and Lucy Mason in Racine, Wisconsin, United States.{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mason.html#182106LO0 |title = The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mason}} He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1881. While at Wisconsin he was a member of the Wisconsin Alpha chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
On November 26, 1891 he married Elizabeth Wilkinson, who died in 1909. He later married Lucy S. Greene on July 16, 1910. Mason died in Topeka on May 4, 1927 as a result of a tonsil infection that developed into mastoid and kidney complications.{{cite news|title=Justice Mason Improved |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2649492/henry_f_mason_18601927/|newspaper=The Emporia Gazette|date=April 25, 1927|page=7|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 20, 2015 }} {{Open access}}{{cite news|title=End is Near for Justice Mason |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2649492/henry_f_mason_18601927/|newspaper=The Emporia Gazette|date=May 3, 1927|page=7|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 20, 2015 }} {{Open access}}{{cite news|title=Judge Henry F. Mason Dies at Topeka, Kan. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2649489/henry_f_mason_18601927/|newspaper=Daily Democrat-Forum and Maryville Tribune|date=May 4, 1927|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 20, 2015 }} {{Open access}}
Shortly after his death the library of the recently constructed Phi Delta Theta house at Washburn University was dedicated in his honor."Kansas Beta's New Chapter House," by Raymond A. Trapp, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, October 1927, p. 71. In 1928, he was posthumously inducted into Washburn's prestigious Sagamore Honor Society.See list of members at http://sagamoresociety.com/history.html, viewed November 26, 2010.
Career
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Mason worked for a newspaper in Black River Falls, Wisconsin while studying law. He began the practice of law in Kansas in 1886. From 1889 to 1893 he served as county attorney for Finney County, Kansas. Later he served in the Kansas State House of Representatives from 1899 to 1902 and was a justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court from 1903 to 1927. He was also a member of the faculty at Washburn Law School."Henry Freeman Mason," New York Times, May 5, 1927
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Category:Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
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