Mason S. Peters

Mason S. Peters, Congressman from Kansas

Mason Summers Peters (September 3, 1844 – February 14, 1914) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born in Clay County, Missouri near Kearney, he attended the William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri. He taught in the grammar schools of Clay County, Missouri from 1867 to 1870. He served as clerk of the court of Clinton County, Missouri from 1870 to 1874. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Plattsburg, Missouri. He moved to Wyandotte County, Kansas, in 1886. He organized the Union Live Stock Commission Co. in 1895.

Peters was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899). He was unsuccessful for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress. He resumed his business and professional pursuits in Kansas City, Kansas. He died in Kansas City, Missouri on February 14, 1914, and interred in Forest Hill Cemetery.

References

United States Congress. "Mason S. Peters (id: P000254)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Mason S. Peters at Find a Grave

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Orrin L. Miller	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 2nd congressional district March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899	Succeeded by Justin D. Bowersock

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas

1st district	Phillips Anderson Morrill Broderick Curtis Anthony Lambertson Cole H. Miller Avery Dole Sebelius Roberts Moran Huelskamp Marshall (elect)

2nd district	Goodin Haskell Funston H. Moore O. Miller M. Peters Bowersock Scott Mitchell Taggart E. Little Guyer C. Little Guyer Scrivner George Ellsworth Avery Mize Roy Keys Jeffries Slattery Brownback Ryun Boyda Jenkins

3rd district	Brown Ryan Perkins Clover Hudson Kirkpatrick Ridgely A. Jackson Campbell Sproul McGugin Patterson Winter Meyer George Hargis McVey Ellsworth Winn Meyers Snowbarger D. Moore Yoder

4th district	Ryan Kelley Otis Curtis J. Miller F. Jackson Doolittle Hoch Carpenter E. Rees Shriver Glickman Tiahrt Pompeo

5th district	Anderson Davis Calderhead Vincent Calderhead R. Rees Helvering Strong Ayres Houston Hope Breeding Skubitz Whittaker Nichols

6th district	Hanback Turner Baker McCormick Reeder Young Connelly White Sparks McCarthy Carlson Smith Dole

7th district	S. Peters Simpson Long Simpson Long Murdock Madison Neeley Shouse Tincher Hope

8th district	Murdock Ayres Bird Ayres

At-large	Conway Wilder Clarke Lowe (1873–1875: Lowe Cobb Phillips) (1883–1885: Hanback Morrill Perkins S. Peters) Harris Blue Botkin Bailey Scott

Territory	Whitfield Parrott

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