George Mason

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American politician Founding Father of the United States human planter slave owner

George Mason was an American Founding Father and influential Virginian statesman best known for authoring the Virginia Declaration of Rights and opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights.

Aliases (1)

George Mason V ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American politician → Founding Father of the United States → human → planter → slave owner →
authorOf	Virginia Declaration of Rights →
burialPlace	Gunston Hall family cemetery →
child	George Mason V → John Mason → Thomson Mason →
countryOfCitizenship	Colony of Virginia → United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1725-12-11 →
dateOfDeath	1792-10-07 →
educatedAt	self-educated →
ethnicGroup	English American →
familyName	Mason →
givenName	George →
heritageDesignation	namesake of George Mason University →
influenced	Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen → James Madison → United States Bill of Rights →
knownFor	drafting the Virginia Declaration of Rights → influencing the United States Bill of Rights → opposing ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights →
memberOf	Mount Vernon Conference → Philadelphia Constitutional Convention → Virginia Convention → Virginia House of Burgesses →
namesakeOf	George Mason Memorial → George Mason University →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	Virginia Declaration of Rights →
opposedTo	ratification of the U.S. Constitution without a bill of rights →
owned	Gunston Hall plantation →
participatedIn	American Revolutionary era politics → drafting of Virginia’s first state constitution →
placeOfBirth	Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia →
placeOfDeath	Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Virginia →
politicalAlignment	Anti-Federalist →
positionHeld	delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1787) → member of the Virginia House of Burgesses → member of the Virginia House of Delegates →
religion	Anglicanism →
residence	Fairfax County, Virginia → Gunston Hall →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Ann Eilbeck Mason →
workLocation	Virginia →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anti-Federalists → Framers of the United States Constitution → House of Burgesses →	notableMember
Virginia Declaration of Rights → Virginia Declaration of Rights →	author
George Mason Memorial Bridge → George Mason University →	namedAfter
George Mason ("George Mason V") →	child
Constitutional Convention →	keyDelegate
Virginia Ratifying Convention →	significantPerson