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James Mason has been a post graduate research student at the University of Southampton since October 2003. He received a first class BSc(Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham and a MBA with merit from the University of Southampton.
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James Murray Mason, a descendant of a prominent Virginia family, became a lawyer and served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He very actively supported backcountry interests at both state and federal levels. As a senator (1847-1861), Mason was a staunch states'-rights Democrat. He drafted the Fugitive Slave Act, which supported his conviction that slavery was the cornerstone of Southern society. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, Mason became convinced that the only way the South could preserve its identity was by establishing its sovereignty.
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James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798 - April 28, 1871) was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. He was a grandson of George Mason. He is best known for his authorship of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and his representation of the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to Great Britain and France between 1861 and 1865 during the Civil War.
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In April 1862, Mason was a schoolboy in Huntsville. On the morning of April 11, 1862, the Federal Army, under the command of Gen. O. M. Mitchell, occupied Huntsville. Mason's school was disbanded and the building seized for military uses. Soon after this event, young Mason and a fellow schoolmate received permission and passed through Union lines to visit friends in Southern Alabama. His attempt to get back through enemy lines was in vain, as they were unable to evade the enemy picket lines and were afraid to return home due to the excessive time having been gone. A friend informed them of a small band of Confederate cavalry that was being formed in the mountains of Madison and Jackson Counties and they were further advised to place themselves under their protection.
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James is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, Member of the IEE and Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a referee for IEE Proceedings and Electronic Letters, and ... for IEEE circuit design conferences. He holds patents in electronic circuit design and optoelectronics and has authored papers in IEE and IEEE publications. His research work at the University of Southampton is focused on the construction of dye sensitised
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James W. Mason, a former chairman of the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees who played a key role in establishing the university’s self-governance, died Dec. 2 in the Southern Pines area. A former state senator who spent his career practicing law in Laurinburg, Mason was 86.
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