Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848)

He was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, the son of a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. He graduated from Yale (1788) and became a lawyer in New Hampshire. He was appointed Attorney-General of New Hampshire (1802-05) and in 1813 was elected as a Federalist to the U.S. Senate, serving until his resignation in 1817. After leaving the Senate, he was a Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and President of the U.S. Bank of Portsmouth (1828-29) before moving to Boston in 1832 where he was a Chamber Counsellor until his death. In 1799, he married Mary, daughter of Robert Means and aunt of First Lady of the United States, Jane Means (Appleton) Pierce.