Alpheus Thomas Mason

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. He graduated from Dickinson College with an AB in 1920 and an AM and PhD from Princeton University in 1921 and 1923, respectively.

Publications Organized Labor and the Law (1925) Brandeis: Lawyer and Judge in the Modern State (1933) Bureaucracy Convicts Itself: The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy of 1910 (1941) The Brandeis Way (1938) Brandeis: A Free Man's Life (1946) Security through Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice (1955) Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law (1956) The Supreme Court from Taft to Warren (1958) In Quest of Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice (1959) The Supreme Court: Palladium of Freedom (1962) The States Rights Debate: Antifederalism and the Constitution (1964, second edition 1972) William Howard Taft: Chief Justice (1964)