Alpheus Thomas Mason

Background

Mason, Alpheus Thomas was born on September 18, 1899 in Snow Hill, Maryland. Son of Herbert William and Emma Leslie (Hancock) Mason.

Education

AB, Dickinson College, 1920. Doctor of Letters, Dickinson College, 1947. Doctor of Laws, Dickinson College, 1963.

A.M., Princeton University, 1921. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1923. Doctor of Laws, Princeton University, 1974.

Doctor of Literature, University Louisville, 1957. Doctor of Literature, Centre College Kentucky, 1977. Doctor of Humane Letters, Washington College, 1969.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Brandeis University, 1973. Doctor of Science, Utah State University, 1976. Doctor of Laws, Franklin and Marshall College, 1981.

Career

Proctor fellow, Princeton University, 1922-1923; assistant professor political science, Trinity College (now Duke U.), 1923-1925; assistant professor politics, Princeton University, 1925-1930; associate professor, Princeton University, 1930-1936; professor, Princeton University, 1936-1947; McCormick professor jurisprudence, Princeton University, 1947-1968; McCormick professor jurisprudence emeritus, Princeton University, 1968-1989; Doherty professor government and law, University Virginia, 1968-1970. Lecturer constitutional law Mercer Beasley School Law, Newark, 1928-1932. Lecturer Liberal Summer School, Cambridge, England, 1935.

Member Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1938. Acting professor political science Stanford University, summer 1947. Lecturer Connecticut College, 1947, Syracuse University, 1948.

Messenger lecturer Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1955. Edward Douglass White lecturer Louisiana StateU., 1957. Ford research professor, 1960.

William W. Cook lecturer University of Michigan, 1962. Lecturer Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1967. Henry L. and Grace Dougherty Foundation professor of University Virginia, 1968-1970.

Visiting professor government Harvard University, 1970-1971, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1971, Dartmouth College, 1971. Hill Foundation visiting professor University of Minnesota, 1971, University of Michigan, 1972. Robb visiting professor Barnard College, 1972, Johns Hopkins University, 1973.

William A. Johnson Memorial distinguished visiting professor Pomona College, 1974. Milton R. Merrill visiting professor Utah State University, 1975. Visiting professor Claremont Men's College, 1976, Centre College Kentucky, 1977, Humboldt State University, 1978, Yale University, 1979.

Walter E. Edge lecturer Princeton University, 1979. Board editors American Political Science Review, 1936-1940;member committee of experts to make survey of administration and expenditures of New Jersey state government, 1932. Director National Endowment for Humanities Summer Seminar, 1979.

Works

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  • American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases

    ( This classic collection of carefully selected and edite...)

  • American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases (15th Edition)

    (This classic collection of carefully selected and edited ...)

  • American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases (14th Edition)

    ( This classic collection of carefully selected and edit...)

  • In Quest of Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice

    (Format Paperback Subject Political Science History U S Po...)

  • Supreme Court in a Free Society

    (A survey of American Constitutional Law focusing on the S...)

  • Free government in the making : readings in American political thought.

    (Readings In American Political Thought)

  • In Quest of Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice

    (Book by Mason, Alpheus Thomas)

  • William Howard Taft: Chief Justice - 1st Edition/1st Printing

    (Biography. First printing stated. Black cloth covers very...)

  • Free Government in the Making: Readings in American Political Thought third edition
  • The Supreme Court; Palladium of Freedom
  • Security through freedom : American political thought and practice
  • The States rights debate: antifederalism and the Constitution;: With selected documents (A Spectrum book)
  • Supreme Court in a Free Society by Alpheus Thomas Mason (1968-02-17)
  • THE SUPREME COURT: PALLADIUM OF FREEDOM
  • William Howard Taft: Chief Justice

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Political Science Association (vice president), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: Nassau (Princeton).

Princeton (New York City). Authors (London).

Connections

Son of Herbert William and Emma Leslie (Hancock) M. M. Christine Este Gibbons, June 12, 1934. 1 daughter, Louise Este Mason Bachelder.

Father:

Herbert William Mason

Mother:

Emma Leslie (Hancock) Mason

Spouse:

Christine Este Gibbons