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American legal scholar and biographer (1899–1989)
Alpheus Thomas Mason (September 18, 1899 – October 31, 1989) was an American legal scholar and biographer. He wrote several biographies of justices of the
Supreme Court of the United States , including
Louis Brandeis ,
Harlan F. Stone , and
William Howard Taft .
Alpheus Thomas Mason was born on September 18, 1899, in
Snow Hill, Maryland .
[2] He graduated from
Dickinson College with an AB in 1920 and an AM and PhD from
Princeton University in 1921 and 1923, respectively.
[2] At Princeton, he grew close with
Edward Samuel Corwin , who "became [his] mentor and also his benefactor and friend".
Mason was on the
Duke University faculty for two years after receiving his PhD.
[2] In 1925, he came back to Princeton where he remained until his retirement in 1968.
[2] At Princeton, he held the McCormick chair and was named the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence when he retired.
[2] He continued teaching at other colleges and universities until 1980.
[4]
He died on October 31, 1989, at his home in
Princeton, New Jersey .
[4]
Publications
Organized Labor and the Law (1925)
Brandeis: Lawyer and Judge in the Modern State (1933)
[6]
Bureaucracy Convicts Itself: The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy of 1910 (1941)
[7]
The Brandeis Way (1938)
[8]
Brandeis: A Free Man's Life (1946)
[9]
Security through Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice (1955)
[10]
Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law (1956)
[11]
The Supreme Court from Taft to Warren (1958)
[12]
In Quest of Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice (1959)
[13]
The Supreme Court: Palladium of Freedom (1962)
[14]
The States Rights Debate: Antifederalism and the Constitution (1964, second edition 1972)
[15]
William Howard Taft: Chief Justice (1964)
[16]
Citations
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e Gerhart, Eugene C. (1999). "Mason, Alpheus Thomas".
American National Biography . Vol. 14.
Oxford University Press . pp.
638–639 .
doi :
10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400386 .
ISBN
0-19-520635-5 .
OCLC
39182280 .
^
a
b Cook, Joan (November 1, 1989).
"Alpheus Mason, an Ex-Professor and Author, 90" .
The New York Times . pp. D26.
ISSN
0362-4331 .
Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved February 11, 2022 .
^ Weeks, Mangum (1934).
Virginia Law Review . 20 (8): 925–929.
doi :
10.2307/1066075 .
ISSN
0042-6601 .
JSTOR
1066075 . {{
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link )
^ Ickes, Harold L. (1941).
Yale Law Journal . 50 (7): 1303–1307.
doi :
10.2307/792390 .
ISSN
0044-0094 .
JSTOR
792390 . {{
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link )
^ Warp, George A. (1939).
California Law Review . 27 (3): 367–368.
doi :
10.2307/3476076 .
ISSN
0008-1221 .
JSTOR
3476076 . {{
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^ Swisher, Carl Brent (1947).
The Journal of Politics . 9 (1): 108–111.
doi :
10.2307/2125862 .
ISSN
0022-3816 .
JSTOR
2125862 . {{
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^ Jentes, William R. (1956).
Michigan Law Review . 54 (7): 1039–1041.
doi :
10.2307/1285405 .
ISSN
0026-2234 .
JSTOR
1285405 . {{
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^ Westwood, Howard C. (1957).
Virginia Law Review . 43 (2): 297–303.
doi :
10.2307/1069824 .
ISSN
0042-6601 .
JSTOR
1069824 . {{
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^ Bickel, Alexander M. (1959). Journal of Legal Education . 12 (2): 287–291.
ISSN
0022-2208 .
JSTOR
42891350 . {{
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^ Pratt, Julius W. (1960). Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . 327 : 142–143.
doi :
10.1177/000271626032700121 .
ISSN
0002-7162 .
JSTOR
1033978 .
S2CID
143754777 . {{
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^ Gerhart, Eugene C. (1963).
American Bar Association Journal . 49 (6): 580–581.
ISSN
0002-7596 .
JSTOR
25722412 . {{
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^ Murphy, William P. (1965).
Stanford Law Review . 17 (5): 996–1002.
doi :
10.2307/1227003 .
ISSN
0038-9765 .
JSTOR
1227003 . {{
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^ Sutherland, Arthur E. (1965).
Harvard Law Review . 79 (1): 222–226.
doi :
10.2307/1338862 .
ISSN
0017-811X .
JSTOR
1338862 . {{
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