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Notes for Alpheus Thomas MASON
Alpheus Thomas Mason, McCormick professor of jurisprudence emeritus at Princeton University and one of the country's foremost judicial biographers, died Tuesday in his home in Princeton, N.J., after a long illness. He was 90
Mr. Mason was the author of 22 books, and his course in constitutional interpretation, offered in the politics department, was voted the school's toughest in student polls several times before he retired.
Among his published works are four volumes on Associate U.S. Justice Louis Brandeis, another on Associate Justice Harlan Stone, one on Chief Justice William Howard Taft and several on critical periods and issues in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
His ''Brandeis: A Free Man's Life'' sold more than 50,000 copies and remained on the bestseller list for five months in 1947.
He received the American Library Association's Liberty and Justice Award for ''Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law,'' described in the award as ''the most distinguished book of 1956 in history and biography.'' For the same book, he also received the Francis Parkman Prize in history.
After he retired from Princeton in 1968, Mr. Mason was a teacher until 1980 at 15 institutions, including Harvard, Dartmouth, Barnard College, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia.
He was a graduate of Dickinson College and received a doctorate from Princeton in 1923. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1925 after two years of teaching at Trinity College (now Duke University), and he became a full professor in 1936.
He is survived by his wife, Christine; a daughter, Louise Bachelder; 3 granddaughters, and 2 great-grandchildren
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